Outer Worlds is where lived experience meets the natural world. This section gathers personal essays on transformation and self-discovery, rooted in connection to land, body, and spirit. Stories from the trail weave together moments of solitude, challenge, and quiet revelation, while practical forest crafts and seasonal rituals offer ways to bring that connection into daily life. Includes sylvotherapy guides that invite readers to step outside, into a deeper relationship with the living world.
Wild Within Reach
These forest crafts are not mean to be extravagant or fancy. Rather, they are meant to be simple and attainable. You are allowed to make mistakes. You can forage herbs, twigs, and florals from your neighborhood or backyard using whatever wildflowers are growing seasonally. I chose scarlet pimpernel, which I
Field Notes from Becoming
The mind can’t remember without the body. When I’d walk into a room and forget what I came for, I'd have to retrace my steps. There are no rooms anymore. Only paths. I’m not too far gone from the path if my body remembers why
Field Notes from Becoming
Within the soil, there is dark. Impenetrable to light through layers of accumulation, foundational rock, and decay from the seasons past. This is where the seed lies. She waits for rain, for the cold to pass. Timing is a flow to be carried by, not to be restrained. So she
Field Notes from Becoming
There is a watery sensation that spring starts to offer, as the humidity rises and the ground gets warmer to bring forth new life. In Ayurveda, the sister science to yoga that speaks to daily living, spring is Kapha season - or - a mix of the water and earth elements. The
Field Notes from Becoming
It's midsummer here in Australia, and is unusually hot - quite ridiculously hot right now - so I've been inside, cloistered, I like to say to myself. It is birthday season for my family, (I always include the ancestors, do you?). With those who have died, I think
Field Notes from Becoming
In June of 2023, I had just arrived in the Sierra foothills with my boyfriend, Chris, and our two cats at his family cabin. We moved from Florida and were in transition to the East Bay, utilizing the cabin as our refuge while our long-term plans began to root.
Outer Worlds
“At this time of year, we concentrate on blending the element of fire, which represents new thought, inspiration, and action, with the element of water, which represents emotion, feelings, and the heart. Actions are wedded to feeling, the will to the heart. The pure white flowers of the Hawthorn represent
Wild Within Reach
Tale from the trail
Sensual Being
Fall Equinox Ritual Guide
Outer Worlds
Outer Worlds is where lived experience meets the natural world. This section gathers personal essays on transformation and self-discovery, rooted in connection to land, body, and spirit. Stories from the trail weave together moments of solitude, challenge, and quiet revelation, while practical forest crafts and seasonal rituals offer ways