It turns out that offering water blessings has its challenges. After my wonderful Ocean experiences in early November I have been going every weekend now for three weeks to sacred water locations in different places in Seattle. Last week, however, I…
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Quite a few posts from the past few months (Seattle Soul Cartography, Licton Springs, Sparkles on the water, South Jetty) have been explorations of local bodies of water and what they mean to me. That is actually just the tip of the…
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As I walked on the sandy trail alongside the South Jetty of the Columbia River, massive waves pounded the 20-foot-high wall of huge basalt boulders above me. The water broke against the rock with such force that I could feel each…
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When I was a boy my family often vacationed at Pacific Grove, near Monterey, California. The mornings were usually foggy and cool, which did nothing to temper my delight in clambering over rocks and inspecting the crabs and sea anemones….
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For more than forty years I have been walking around in Seattle and never made it to Licton Springs, nestled in an unpromising location between North Seattle College and Aurora Avenue North. Last week I made a slight detour from…
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Now that a new Soul Cartography class is under way, I’m thinking about the specific features of this place I live in as an occasion for mapping of meanings. As part of a lengthy process of getting regrounded in my home…
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