SEEDBED of the YEAR (in the dead of winter)
SEEDBED OF THE YEAR (in the dead of winter) I was delighted to find such rich words synonymous with "beginning" from the Merriam-Webster...
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Tracy Chipman
Sep 21, 20233 min read
POROSITY & THE WELL OF GRIEF
The season of the sun is slip-sliding, untying and transitioning into autumn, preparing the way for the dreamtime of winter. Are you...
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Tracy Chipman
Feb 17, 20223 min read
In the Womb
Greetings to you on this late winter day. Here in the north and middle this is the time of subtle, yet noticeable change - light -...
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Tracy Chipman
Dec 9, 20214 min read
The Space Between
WINTER WITCH So begins the time of the Winter Witch - the Cailleach. Here in the north she has come! December is a dance between worlds;...
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Tracy Chipman
Oct 27, 20213 min read
Mother Memory
Birthed now an orphan by the singing tongues of mercurial Sea Held by the long arms of memory Weaned on grief Me all salt tears and mist...
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Tracy Chipman
Oct 9, 20215 min read
The Third Road
There's a story, a story, a story told in the north, south, west & east on a far away island that once upon a time and once upon this...
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Tracy Chipman
Sep 2, 20213 min read
HEART DEEP INTO HARVEST
Shell River in N. Minnesota This past spring many, so many seeds were planted, tucked into the loamy black earth of these COVID times....
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Tracy Chipman
Jun 28, 20213 min read
Summer Sanctuary
An open window beckons on this northern midwestern Summer Solstice day. The longest day of the year and the zenith of the sun's light in...
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Tracy Chipman
Jan 20, 20211 min read
Beginnings
The word beginning is a descendent of the Old English word onginnan (ca.450-1100) meaning to undertake, to attempt. One of the many...
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Tracy Chipman
Dec 9, 20203 min read
Adjusting to the Dark
The translucent slant ways light of November has ebbed and what is left is an ever thickening blanket of cloud cover. It feels the all...
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Tracy Chipman
Sep 16, 20202 min read
Piercing the Heart
A few years ago a massive wildfire - The 2016 Fort McMurry wildfire claimed 1,456,810 acres of Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada. It...
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Tracy Chipman
Aug 25, 20203 min read
A Note from the Edge
From the Edge of an Inland Sea In the Tipping place between Harvest and Sweet Release Listening from the eyes of the ears to the...
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Tracy Chipman
Jul 9, 20203 min read
Beloved Other
Dear Friends, I hope you are all keeping well here in the middle of summer, in the middle of a pandemic and in these unsettling and...
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Tracy Chipman
May 1, 20202 min read
Interruption = The Birthplace of Story
Here we are - spring! The natural is world waking up ( in the northern realm) and yet, so much is dissolving, shifting and unknown as...
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