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Like many women during the 1920s, including during The Great Depression, my Great Grandma Boyer quilted and made dresses from fabric sold to farmers as seed, feed, and flour sacks. Obviously those farm supplier and milling companies knew both the pragmatics of multi-purpose resusables and how to increase sales. Yet I also wonder if they unknowingly (or knowingly) sensed the human soul's longing, especially in hard times, for creativity and making of healing beauty. How we are

This wellness practice was promoted by The United Nations in 1991. Known as Taiji Qigong Shibashi, or simply 18 Forms, Qigong master and researcher Professor Lin Housheng created it by drawing on traditional flowing movements used for hundreds of years as energy medicine, illness prevention, and meditative spiritual practice. Stress and hypertension reduction are among the health benefits Hence the U.N. endorsement. Students in my weekly Qigong Mind-Body-Spirit wellness cla

Whew! It's time to shed all that's binds. Really. It's time. I'm not just talking shedding the restrictive, heavy layers of winter clothes though I'm definitely on board with that (Hello Spring!). I'm talking about loosening and releasing in mind-body-spirit ways any stuckness, stagnation, or tightness we fell into along the way. RUTS. Ruminations or Habits of Heart and Mind which bind. This is your invitation to exhale and loosen. Like how, during energy readings when I se

No heroics or guilt required. Just willingness to go into, and as, the wilderness the way ancient Israelites and Jesus did, accompanied by the ministry of angels. Learning to be receptive, unclenched, and open like the wilderness itself. Not--as a Scottish bee-keeper, rosary maker, and monastic wisdom lover put it-- to prove your devotion. "Not beat your body into submission. Not become spiritually impressive. Just: make space.Just: return" (See Fiach's full essay from Pa

Prayer as an open, spacious, receptive quality of mind and heart. Being like an open Iowa field. (photo: Deer path in Iowa Field along Standing Rock road during morning prayer run, 2025 by cqe) That was the longest January ever. Normally I'm a lover of winter. It's contemplative wisdom too, especially concerning the nurturance of solitude (different from loneliness), slowing down, and rest. Breathing into restlessness until, borrowing word