Category Archives: The Land Work

Going Viral: Respect, Relationship — and a Pandemic

Communicating with other lifeforms as a land and Earth worker is a privilege and a responsibility. I relish this phenomenon and have no need to analyze it — a good thing because I have no idea how I’d go about … Continue reading

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Bio of a Worthy Opponent: Highlights

COVID-19 was first identified in China in late 2019/early 2020 and quickly spread through travel. Flu-like in nature, it primarily targeted the lungs, sometimes necessitating hospitalization on a ventilator. We soon learned the virus could impact the heart, digestion, sense … Continue reading

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The Big, Angry Bear

Two women friends of mine approached me about a troubling situation, an “emergency,” in their neighborhood and we quickly got together to discuss it. They live on adjoining streets, and the junction of the two is a circle that seemed … Continue reading

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Being a lighthouse

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” — Albert Einstein As I was wrapping up the writing of my book Land Whisperer | A Guide to Partnering Energetically with Any Environment, I was … Continue reading

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Loops and spirals

One recent Sunday morning I went walking on a familiar hillside trail with panoramic views of the whole Bay Area as well as enclosed, wooded segments. The weather had turned hot so I went early. I was weighed down by … Continue reading

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The balm of compassion

The universe persists in sending us what we need to grow in awareness and feel our connection to all that is. Often it doesn’t seem so; in fact, often it feels the reverse, especially when we’re faced with one challenge … Continue reading

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The call to Earth work

Earth work is a calling. It’s not something you decide to do in advance of beginning to carry out the work. You don’t decide to train for it either, though you may in fact be training (apprenticing) for it unawares. … Continue reading

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September 11…and December 25

I originally drafted this post right after 9/11/2011, the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks and a time of high emotion, then “forgot about it” till now. I publish it here synchronous with a time of year when many people … Continue reading

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Amazing Grace: A spider’s story

When newcomers to Hawai’i, my husband, David, and I lived on the slopes of the dormant volcano Hualalai in Kona. We were fortunate to find a little rental house at the end of a dead-end street and adjacent to a … Continue reading

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Intersecting worlds

Moke Kupihea, in his book Kahuna of Light, writes that “…The Hawaiians in the days of old believed that there were certain areas on each island where [there] were openings from the dimension of the living world to the dimension … Continue reading

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