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“There’s a whisper on the night-wind, there's a star agleam to guide us,
And the Wild is calling, calling . . . let us go.”
-Robert William Service

Arriving at the summer solstice, I’ve been revisiting new year’s resolutions at the midway point. Thinking a lot about personal patterns and behaviors that repeat season after season in slightly altered forms. What is the reason for repetition? How do we break the “nostalgia for samsara”? There is suffering in repetition, picking or tearing open old wounds...but I’m noticing growth as well.

Nostalgia and reflection have me pouring through hundreds of old photos from the past five years. Repetition and also growth. Motivation is realized in the patterns I see in my photographs that still inspire me, and I can notice change as well. Change in myself, in what I noticed then, in what I am noticing now.

Tara Brach uses the acronym RAIN (recognize, allow, investigate, nourish) to understand and motivate personal transformation. This is my mantra as of late. In this realm, wild creativity abounds...and sharing some old favorites below during a period of investigation and nourishment.

Montreal, August 2011.



Detroit, October 2011.



January 2014.



Detroit, February 2014.



Detroit, February 2014.


Durham, NC, November 2014.



Detroit, August 2014.


Near Sao Jorge, Brazil, February 2015.



Red Hook, Brooklyn, December 2015.



Warwick, NY, March 2016.



April 2016.



Brooklyn, June 2016 (finished flower medicine!).