Oose Bainke (Thank you Stinging Nettle) By Nikki McDaid I craved your touch Your electric sting licking my skin Hurting and healing And ultimately transforming A lesson about life and death, birth and rebirth I was reborn from your jagged
Winter Solstice Meditations By Nikki McDaid As a family, we wait in our autumn camp for the sun to speak to us It is nearly time to transition to winter but we still eagerly wait for our northern relatives
Adapt by Nikki McDaid Today Warmth on our skin in the cold season How will we all adapt? Will some plants bloom and die early from the coming cold? What does that mean for our interconnectedness?
“Listen To Your Mother” By Loren Yeager Lately one of my rituals is to go to the lake, walk the shore and just “listen” to mother earth. I know she recognizes me, her daughter, standing here on the shore and
Below is a message from Adam Kessel of the Cook County Forest Preserve. He shared news of a controlled burn at Somme Woods, which is also the place where saplings for constructing the lodge will be harvested. Thank you Adam!
Our group came together for a second time about a month after our first gathering. We continued the good work of building the philosophical and spiritual infrastructure for the lodge by defining the values we want to guide our work, discussed possible lodge
Just over one year ago, Saturday January 25 2020, members of our Teaching Lodge community gathered for the first time. We made new relatives, we visited old ones, we did ceremony, we feasted, we laughed, and we dreamed of what
Oose Bainke (Thank you Stinging Nettle) By Nikki McDaid I craved your touch Your electric sting licking my skin Hurting and healing And ultimately transforming A lesson about life and death, birth and rebirth I was reborn from your jagged
Winter Solstice Meditations By Nikki McDaid As a family, we wait in our autumn camp for the sun to speak to us It is nearly time to transition to winter but we still eagerly wait for our northern relatives
