Day 18 - Sex and Tree Breathing
Okay I have mentioned it a few times but here is a practice that will heal all your maladies, improve your sex life, make you more...
Day 17 - A Tree Evangelist
Today I woke up from a dream. I was looking up from the base of Madonna at her limbs swaying gracefully and fully in the wind. Simple,...
Day 15 - Interconenctedness
What will happen to me if I spend 30 days with a madrona? Can I inspire others to notice a tree in their life? Will the greater community...
Day 14 - One Breath a day
I shuttle between two worlds daily. The world of Doings, magnetized to a computer and the strange world of social media as I run the...
Day 13 - Dog mind Tree mind
I approached Madonna from the seaside. It was well past twilight, the last whispers of orange fading from the western sky. My pattern has...
Day 11 - Night Tree Listening
Tonight I approach Madonna (the madrona) as a large aware presence in the open field. I feel her as a great benevolent creature of power...
30 Days with a Madrona - Day 10 - Full Moon Buddha
Today is Buddha’s birthday. It is also the full moon, a blue moon, the second full moon of the month. 2,500 hundred years or so ago,...
30 Days with a Madrona - Day 9 - The Devious One
When running a campaign that asks for financial support needed to do one’s work, it’s tempting to get caught up in assessing how things...
30 Days with A Madrona - Day 8 - She Whispers Her Name
I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water. -Wendell Berry I sit and rest my back...
30 Days with a Madrona - Day 7 - Arboreal Sadness
This entire campaign is a great intuitive social medium experiment. The medium is the tree. The social experiment is: what will happen to...