“I see you once a year. You’re like family!” I said to my friend, Morgen Reynolds, at the Florida Storytelling Festival. She’d been coming with her mother every year from Montana, and this was the third year in a row. The feeling when I saw Morgen felt so familiar. I grew up gathering every year …Read More
Category: Storytelling
Setting Intentions for 2023 ~ Online Workshop
“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it” ~ Paulo Coelho As the year comes to a close, I look back at what I have accomplished. Then, I look forward, what do I want for this new year? The universe will help me to achieve it… “If you don’t …Read More
Release & Renewal: January 2023
Are you feeling stuck? Get ready to release 2022… and step into 2023 with renewed energy. We’ve got something new planned. New processes to tune into the Wisdom areas to create an embodied prayer. New stories and ceremony to enter into sacred space and time together. “If you don’t know where you are going, any …Read More
River Rising: Fake News and Clickbait
“What do you think of this?” she passed me her phone. The text message showed a smart link to an Internet article with the picture of an official making an announcement. “I don’t know,” I said, “Did you read it?” “Yes,” she said. Her voice anxious. “What did it say?” “I only read the message. …Read More
Little Dandelion ~ Soul Growth with Astral Shaman
Story + Meditation = Healing. I met Astral Shaman in a meditation and healing workshop more than a decade ago. I immediately fell in love with his Scottish lilt–the way words sound like song, warm and welcoming, literally music to my ears. As a child, I lost my own Jamaican accent after starting first grade …Read More
Meanest Person Ever
“You are the meanest person ever,” her voice laughs playfully even as she loads all the pre-teen seriousness into the sentence. I pass a large family on the beach. Parents, aunts, uncles, siblings, cousins move like ants around a mound of beach umbrellas to and from the sweetness of the sea. I smile inwardly as …Read More
FGCU Storytelling 2022 – 2023: A New Season
I felt as if something woke up inside of me. That first time that I heard someone tell a story, one person in front of an audience, holding our complete attention, I was so fully captivated that I thought to myself, “I want to be able to do that.” For a moment, my mind took …Read More
Pushing a Peanut up a Mountain
Have you ever felt like you are pushing a peanut up a mountain? Bill Williams knows how you feel. In 1929, he pushed a peanut up the 14,000 feet of Colorado’s Pike’s Peak Highway… with his nose. Why? For a bet, of course. It took him 22 days, a bag full of peanuts, knee pads, …Read More
Remembering Vincent Chin ~ Annie Tan
How do you turn tragedy into prayer? … a prayer for a better world … a prayer for justice … a prayer for healing … June 19, 2022, marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Vincent Chin. The Asian American community united in response and worked to expand the protections against hate crimes. Learn …Read More
Neonatal Step-Down Unit
“You seem traumatized,” said my friend the neonatologist–a pediatrician that takes care of newborn babies. I was telling the story of my very first rotation decades earlier as a medical resident fresh from medical school. I was assigned to the neonatal step down unit where I was expected to be the doctor. The unit had …Read More