Cie’s 2023 Winter Solstice Greeting Thursday, December 21st at 10:27 pm Deer Hearts, One thing I’ve learned deeply from my 51 years of doing healing work is that no matter what name has been given to a specific healing modality – or even if you don’t call it anything at all – [...]
2023 Autumn Equinox Greeting from Cie For me, Autumn began early this year. It wasn’t the weather, because the kind of weather we used to have all summer before climate change, only began at the beginning of September here in western Massachusetts. The reason Autumn came early was because an amazing amount of Bear Energy [...]
2023 SUMMER SOLSTICE June 21st 10:57 a.m. ET Have you been having a hard time with all the suffering, pain, grief, greed, violence, and fighting in the world? This Solstice message is offering an alternative to getting stuck in those things, and a way to help heal them. But first, a little background: As [...]
The Equinox begins on March 20th at 5:24 p.m. Deer Hearts,The picture above was taken the day after the Nor’Easter that fell upon the hills of western Massachusetts where I live. Three feet of snow fell here – places with higher elevation got even more snow than that. So much snow piled on top of [...]
The 2022 Spring Equinox is March 20th at 11:33 a.m. EST Deer Hearts, This Spring is especially poignant with the physical, emotional and societal changes that we have all been going through for the last few years, and with world events that are breaking our hearts. Some of us may wonder if humans will [...]
Deer Hearts, A few months ago, I had one of the most amazing experiences of my life as a healer of animals. On a nice, sunny day at the end of October, I was driving up my road after having taken Ebbie for a walk in the woods. When I got in front of my [...]
The Autumn equinox is a time of balance between darkness and light, and that surely describes perfectly the times we are living in, and attempting to find our way through. For most folks, stress levels are up, politics are dividing the country, and there’s a lot of Mouse Medicine happening. WHAT! Mouse Medicine??? Yes, stick [...]
Hello again dear ones, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-4jgoC23FY&t=5s This is a link to my part of the Forbes Library closing reception: In This Together: An Art and Poetry Exhibit on Human and Planetary Health, from the evening of August 31st, 2021 Change is the first poem. After reading the second poem, Live Like A Dog, don’t miss the ending, where I turn [...]
I received an Honorable Mention for my article submission in this year’s Writer’s Digest Annual Competition. Writer’s Digest has been shining a spotlight on up and coming writers in all genres through its Annual Writing Competition for 90 years. Winners of the 90th Annual competition will be announced in the Nov/Dec 2021 issue of Writer's Digest.
I am honored and excited to have had two of the poems in the series I am currently working on about Love included in the Forbes Library Exhibit: IN THIS TOGETHER: A Virtual Exhibit on Planetary and Human Health. All the works chosen express how the past year and a half have impacted each of us, the [...]