Author: communityearthalliance

10 September 2019             Today the woods reminded me of how life changes—how throughout our lives we experience the ebb and flow that is so common in natural phenomena. Recently over the past couple weeks, I’ve had more and more responsibilities come up… graduate school applications, signing up and studying for the GRE, practicing skills [...]

September 10, 2019 It felt good being back in our woods again. The natural areas in Alaska were amazing, but not familiar. Not the sense of intimacy and friendship of this woods. As I centered I would at times go off into tangent areas, issues. Slowly it dawned on me that it was in the [...]

13 August 2019             Today the woods provided to me a calm and beautiful space to relax and self-sooth. Today the woods were a spa. The fallen log over the creek was the perfect place to walk across, back and forth, focusing on both my physical and emotional balance. The cold water in the creek [...]

A summer of change is coming to an end, and leading into a busy year. My mind was full of thoughts this morning. Each one flying by like the birds singing in the distance. A new life has been brought forth to me by the growth of the forest and world around me. I have [...]

August 13, 2019 The chi, the energy of the woods is there to be touched and entered into when we are there. When I am able to enter it, it has the same affect that a vacation has, it pulls me away from the other happenings in my life, the issues that focus me during [...]

6 August 2019             Today the woods were still. Nothing stuck out to me quite like the stillness of it all. All around me the world was motionless—the wind wasn’t blowing around me, no leaves were dropping from the canopy, the birds weren’t flying above me. It was quiet—the river wasn’t babbling, the leaves weren’t [...]

Chi Gong again. In touch with life energy. As I finished and set in the woods, under the oak tree, the notion of death came alive. The human deaths in Lauren and Aaron’s families, the death of relationships in divorces we are experiencing and separations, and the death of plants in the woods. There are [...]