The Free Radical

With all of the recent rain, the mushrooms have moved into overwhelm. It’s like an invasion… but a happy one. Fields of Shaggy Manes and other unidentified monsters pop up all over the place like ideas in a fertile mind. (…)

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For every encounter that I report there are at least three more on which I remain silent. Some of these encounters are just encounters; there are no overt messages. And sometimes I sense the message, but I just don’t get (…)

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I was hoping that Coyote would agree to be my new dog. (For those who remember Jazz, my departed dog, today is her birthday.) I thought maybe Coyote could just meet up with me everyday for my walks, tag along, (…)

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Spider is both a symbol for infinity as well as the weaver of illusion. I find Spider’s figure-eight body in the most interesting of places! This is a very different Spider from the white and gold version of Grandmother Spider (…)

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The Master Recyclers are out in full force. Mushrooms are great indicators of much going on beneath the surface. They are but the fruiting bodies of the actual organism which lives wholly underground… the mycelium. Generally, they take on the (…)

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“Lighten up!” At first, I thought that might be all I’d get from Sweet Clover. Much like his gangly stalks and tiny sparse flowers, his words can be short and clipped… yet potent in their economy. I had him team (…)

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Check out this clown! This strange little plant is called Strawberry-Blite. Although spelled differently, the word “blite” (blight) usually associates with other words like “disease” and “pox” or “blemish” or maybe even “curse.” Clearly, its name points to infection… and (…)

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I’m always excited to encounter Frog! He will only appear when conditions are suitable: i.e. pristine. He doesn’t handle pollution or other environmental degradation or corruption well. You only need to watch his antics very briefly to understand his mastery, (…)

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I began having conversations with trees in 1994. That’s when I first heard about the Shining World, which subsequently was incorporated into my first book The Thousand-Petalled Lotus: The Flower of Human Consciousness. I was only beginning to grasp the (…)

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By my count, this is the eighth snake of the season. I walked right up to him and he didn’t budge. Just his tongue flicked in and out of his mouth. He tasted my presence, making sure that I was (…)

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