Butterfly Dreams

  I was so touched to have Anne Marie Bennett feature my story in this week's KindredSpirits newsletter! It's fun to meet each other - in person or virtually! And I love hearing other folks' stories!! I'm one of those people for whom creativity is life-blood! Crafts, art, doodling in school and on blank spots on programs…. Always a bit of a butterfly, my interests / passions shift - creativity is always there in some form! I discovered SoulCollage® in 2008, and that November wrote in my blog, “With Seena Frost's book 'SoulCollage' finally in hand, I pulled out the files of images I'd been gathering & created my first SoulCollage® card!” I'd already discovered KaleidoSoul, and that winter, followed the newsletter suggestion to make a ‘Word of the Year’ card. My word for 2009 was ‘Presence’.  Presence - 2009 I made cards off and on, and was excited to sign up when GG, Glenda Goodrich, came to town to offer an afternoon of SoulCollage® in 2009. I...

  Last year, a friend who's also a Breitenbush community alumni invited me to zoom calls with the Balneology group he's part of. Folks interested in the healing properties of springs and water gather monthly, with a different speaker each time.  While all the calls I've attended are interesting, our recent speaker, Gina Bria, spoke my language of health and hydration!   An anthropologist trained at Columbia University, Gina has been studying better ways to hydrate for years! She spoke of looking beyond the common injunction to  "drink more water" for hydration. She suggest spending time outside to receive natural light. She talked of the viral role movement plays, of how plants structure water and make it more available, of external water (mud baths!) .... and I thought of how my time at Breitenbush Hot Springs had included all of these sources daily! Quench - a better way to hydrate And she spoke of the book she co-authored with Dr Dana Cohen, an integrative...

 It's been nearly a month since graduating from SoulCollage®  facilitator training, and I'm deepening with my own practice and community connections.   The connections included meeting my classmate Linda Minor, and attending a free 'Sneak Peak' session with Sheila Spain at a nearby library.  That week, I led my first card making session in my Red Thread Creatives circle, and finished an article about my journey for the KaleidoSoul newsletter. Drugma Dragon Eye Last week, I gathered virtually with 3 others from our class for a card Reading session.  A hallmark of SoulCollage® is that we each read our cards for ourselves , as the cards represent our own unique constellation of characters and traits.  During the training, we spent part of each session in 3 or 4 person break out rooms, and did readings, each drawing on our own inner wisdom.   During a reading, we rotate roles: Reader Scribe Witness & hold space for each other. The Scribe draw...