01/14/26 Greetings Wildhearted Wanderers, Hope-Dealers, Bridge-Builders and Bringers of Light! Listen...if you haven’t heard...I’m about to share something that is creating positive change in the world! The Walk for Peace! Walk for Peace through South Carolina Words cannot truly express what was felt on Monday. My friend Lana Lander suggested we go see the venerable monks and the Walk for Peace with our own eyes and hearts. They were only 2 hours away and the opportunity to see them walking...
13 days ago • 3 min read
01/07/26 Hello, wildhearted, truth-tellers, hope-dealers and beautiful souls! The Uncomfortable Middle So here we are...staring into the face of 2026. And I feel a bit...discombobulated. Sometimes the space after the old is cleared (thank you 2025...definitely a “deep clean” of a year) feels a lot like a train that’s loaded but hasn’t left the station yet. Some passengers are still saying their goodbyes, while others are just arriving, and the platform hums with unfinished business,...
20 days ago • 3 min read
12/31/25 Greetings Wildhearted Souls! I had just finished doing some work clearing brush from an embankment on some very wild and rustic mountain property and paused for a few moments to bathe in the surrounding silence. While working I noticed that I could hear traffic noises from I-26 (very deep and low truck sounds), which was a little surprising because I was quite a few miles from the highway. (Sound travels and bounces around in odd ways in the mountains.) But from this...I began to...
27 days ago • 5 min read
12/24/25 Greetings, Wildhearted Tribe! Before anything else, let me say this:From my heart to yours, wishing you a very Merry Christmas and Holiday Season! However this season finds you...surrounded by blood family, chosen family, personal solitude, or a complicated mix of all three...I hope you are surrounded by moments of ease, warmth, and unexpected gentleness and joy. And… let’s be honest here, the holiday season can also stir up a lot!Old roles. Old expectations. Old nervous-system...
about 1 month ago • 7 min read
12/12/25 Greetings, Wildhearted Tribe! Something remarkable happened last night.It was an experiment… one I truly didn’t know would flop or soar.But it soared. I could see it in their eyes and feel it in the air — this spacious, electric hum of connection. For almost a year now, I’ve been attending an open mic night at a little mountain-gem eatery called the Cedar Mountain Outpost (special thanks here to Keturah Allgood and Heartsong Creative for making this happen). Open mics are...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
12/03/25 Hello, wild-hearted, truth-tellers, hope-dealers and beautiful souls! When I was a kid...my parents told me I was a “strong-willed child.” (Thank you James Dobson). This wasn’t any kind of badge of honor. Trust me. This was a way to label someone who was different...someone who pushed against the expected...someone who asked a lot of questions for better understanding...someone who didn’t just accept the status-quo as gospel. Many things that I was told just didn’t resonate with...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
11/27/25 Greetings Creators, Collaborators, Hope-Dealers, Bridge-Builders and Bringers of Light! If you’re new here — welcome. Field Notes is a weekly dispatch of reflection and soul care sent every week. It’s Thanksgiving Day here in America. And this is the first year in many years that I did not make a made-from-scratch pumpkin pie. I distinctly remember when I was living in Tennessee ….when I decided from that day forward I would always make a pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving. This was due to...
2 months ago • 3 min read
11/21/25 Hello, quiet souls finding meaning in ordinary moments. A Note on Gratitude (and a Slow Driver) I didn’t feel inspired when I sat down to write this. No big revelation.No thunderbolt of insight.Just a small memory from my moment on the road. There was a driver in front of me going slower than I wanted. You know that feeling — the tightening, the impatience, the silent wishing they would just move along. And then something unexpected happened. I thought:What if? What if that driver...
2 months ago • 1 min read
11/12/25 Hello, fire-starters, edge-walkers, and audacious hearts! What if? What if you went digging through my blog posts and landed on a post from October 19, 2012?I’ll save you the trouble and share it here — because it’s worthy of a revisit 14 years later. Here's a recap. My gosh, how time flies. Back in 2012, I was just beyond hobby-artist territory — painting, experimenting, and looking for new ways to stretch my creative wings. Somewhere along the way, I stumbled upon a call for...
3 months ago • 2 min read