Posts by Lost Borders
On Mom (Meredith, Merdie) retiring from the School
In her teenage years my mother was arrested on the corner of Haight and Ashbery. She was also student body president of her exclusive private school. She was, even then, modeling her capacity to run with both the sheep and the wolves, the coyotes and the rabbits. She was already becoming committed to the idea that there is no us and them, no good and bad, no wrong belief that needs correcting. She was learning how to see every human as truly worthy of her compassion and attention…
Read MoreSitting with birthing mothers and dying people, the ceremony speaks…
Seven days and nights walking, fasting, singing, praying alone can’t not change you! I gained a clear life’s purpose: Earth–Birth–Death. It became my mission, my mantra that guided me for 40 years in these ways…
Read MoreI felt the next part of my life calling to me….
My time in the intention circle and on the land became about stepping into my adulthood in a clean way, without blame, grandiosity, or dominating others….
Read MoreRipples from the Ceremony 2024
It was truly a threshold crossing for me. A completion and marking of the closing of my identity in this first half of my life, my former identity as a therapist and all the ways I engaged in that work and a crossing into the unknown of what was next. It lives in me as such a clear marking of that transition…
Read MoreRipples from the Ceremony- 2011
I’ve done so much in my life to heal and to seek – vision fasting, conscious dance, meditation, enneagram work, somatic therapy, traditional therapy… Vision fasts have been one of the most powerful of all. The two fasts I have done are references for how I know myself and my connection to all things….
Read MoreRipples from the Ceremony- 1990
my revolutionary gesture is to inhabit the common world we share….
Read MoreRipples from the Ceremony – 2024
I never thought that I would find my way in the way I did. And if it was not for what the land told me unmistakingly, I may believe that I am still searching and wandering
Read MoreThe Future In Its Shimmering
There are certain times in life when envisioning our future has special poignancy: when we’re dealing with a life-threatening illness (our own or that of a loved one) or when we’re in our elder years. It is at these times that the overwhelming question: Will I even be alive then? can loom large.
Read MoreThe Future In Its Shimmering
There are certain times in life when envisioning our future has special poignancy: when we’re dealing with a life-threatening illness (our own or that of a loved one) or when we’re in our elder years. It is at these times that the overwhelming question: Will I even be alive then? can loom large.
Read MorePractices of Living and Dying
Fire Making at the 2018 California Month-Long Training
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