This one is inspired by Hidden Waters' model of moving from harm to healing. It's been such a helpful thing in my own life.

Leave a comment! I'd love to hear from you. How is it all going for you?

I'd love to hear from you! Hows it all going for you? This one is about the third of my "Three Pearls of Healing" - Zen practice and healing circles are the other two.

Leave a comment! I'd love to hear from you! This video is about gratitude when you hit rock bottom, because you've finally got your feet on something solid.

The last few videos have been about Zen, the first of three Pearls I carry in my pocket on the Trail to the Western Lands.

This one is about Healing Circles. I'm a volunteer circle keeper with Hidden Water, an organization that facilitates healing circles run by and for those effected by Child Sex Abuse: https://www.hiddenwatercircle.org/

Roman diplomats carried bread and sword - peace and war - in their togas when they met with their enemies. You can have either one, they would say. Choose wisely. We all carry war and peace with us, every moment. We are the ones who must choose wisely. Do we greet ourselves and the world around us in a stance of peace or in a stance of war?

Zen is something you do, not something you think, they say. It's a practice, they say. What does that mean exactly? This video is about what that means to this here Zen practitioner.

This piece is about an image from Dogen which stuck in my mind. Young Hunter - that's me when I'm impatient to get results, and get them NOW! Healing, happiness, enlightenment, the final books in the Song of Ice & Fire, whatever it is. Old Woodcutter - That's me when I live in the past, trying to carve and whittle the past into something that's more to my liking. In between those two figures is just me, right here right now. I'd love to hear from you! My email is suchaone@proton.me

Here are some Moonlight Miles musings on the idea of imagining one's self as an animal. Is it good or bad to be a Bear? How about an Octopus?