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“Blessed is the life lived in sync with the land on which it is lived.” — Wendell Berry Sunset over the prairie. June 2025. White baptisia and penstemon flowering in the grasses. It's been one year living in the Driftless Region of Wisconsin, my first home outside of the state of Minnesota. I live with a close friend of a decade, Jayne, and a newer friend whom I met moving here, Lane. Both of whom my soul has chosen as beloved and kindred. I'm a package deal with them now, an

In bushcraft circles, there’s a saying: Know more, carry less. It is practical to learn enough skills, with the intention that you won’t need to haul every gadget, backup tool, or survival accessory into the woods. You can go into the woods, dressed as yourself, rather than as an astronaut going into space. It always makes me laugh the way we gear up to travel into our first home. The idea of this saying is that wisdom can replace excess material items. A reminder that within

Relational-Cultural Therapy (RCT) was developed by Jean Baker Miller and her colleagues at the Stone Center, and it begins with a simple but radical premise: we grow through connection, not separation. Much of what we call psychological distress is actually the pain of disconnection from others, from community, from our own sense of worth. RCT helps us examine how power, privilege, and cultural messages shape our relationships and how we move through the world. In our work to

While contemplating the Gene Keys by Richard Rudd, I learned that everyone has a key that is their "Radiance" key. This is the key that, when practiced and contemplated, can support health, wellness, and radiant lifeforce. The key that falls into my radiance space is Gene Key 23: The shadow of complexity, the gift of simplicity, and ultimately the path to being able to see the essence of things, the quintessence. Over time, I began to realize that I valued simplicity as a com