Category: Dispatches from the Bardo: Real talk on change, crisis, and the fragile space of becoming.

Wrestling with God, Suffering and the Gift of Choice

The Holocaust is the darkest example I know of freedom gone terribly wrong. And it shakes me to my core. How could a good God allow such suffering?

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When Lao Tzu, the Buddha, and Jesus Speak as One

For those of us who feel these truths in our bones, and maybe even have them inked on our bodies, these teachings are alive. They’re not museum pieces. They’re practice. Path. Breath.

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Coming Home to Yourself: Wild Woman Retreat at Light on the Hill

“If you’re feeling any kind of way,” she told me, “you can go to the gorge and let it hold you. That water is ancient. It carries big energy—the kind that can transform the heaviness we all carry sometimes. The gorge isn’t just a landscape; it’s a living force.”

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What We Share: The Universal Threads of Being Human

No matter our lineage, language, practice, or path, there are sacred rhythms that tether us to each other.

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The Speed of Wonder: John Muir Laws on Attention, Art and the Sacred Act of Looking

The leaf is not just a leaf. It is a galaxy of chloroplasts, a vascular system, a fingerprint of time. A living, trembling archive of light and weather and form. You can’t handle it. You can barely comprehend it. But you can bow to it. You can draw it. You can fall in love with it.

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