How to Use Rolling Papers for Spells and Rituals

Rolling papers for spells? Really? Picture painting time: it’s the dark moon and you have some banishing to do. Or it’s Valentine’s and you’ve just been dumped, and you want to light something on fire and also cut your ex out of your life. (We’ve all been there.) Or, on a more positive note, you …

Gardening As a Metaphor for Healing from Trauma

In the past week I’ve started thinking about gardening as a metaphor for my own healing from my trauma, which has helped me organize my thoughts about it and figure out what steps I need to take next. Imagine the soul, or the mind, or whatever the essence of the person is, as a garden. …

Signal Boost: The Disabled Hiker’s Guidebook

After several years working on building disabled community and posting about disabled-accessible hiking, my friend Syren Nagakyrie has started work on the Guidebook for it all. Of course, creating such a guidebook will take some money — one needs to travel to the hikes and try them in order to write effectively about them. So …

Practice Makes Progress: April 1st to 15th

It’s been a while since my last post, and even longer since my last Practice Makes Progress post, which I’d hoped to make a regular feature. Mea culpa. Life’s been weird. I’m sure it has been for you too. In my last post I mentioned moving up to Powell River to help take care of …