My recent letter to the New York Times Magazine editors: Thank you so much for your article about seeing bugs for ‘who’ they are. Not inferior to humans or other animals. Just different, each with their own unique skills and sensitivities. Since I was four, I’ve been connecting with various bugs. Most become still for […]
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‘My’ Dog is a Workaholic
Sweetgrass, the Workaholic Dachshund, is a grassroots kind of female. Need I say more, except that it’s pretty obvious why she chose her name. She loves digging down to, and beyond, her grass roots. The sweetest thing on earth to do, in her opinion. I could go on and on with silly stuff about my […]
How This Horse Overrode His Pain
Meet Thor. Like his mythical namesake, this equine god of thunder now lives within the ranks of the unseen. Not even what we perceive as unbearable physical pain affected his smooth gait as he moved with grace through his brief transition. His devoted human companion, as sharp and lovingly attentive as she is, didn’t have […]
Even Dogs Act Ugly When They Feel They LOOK Ugly
Recently, I did a phone session for a dog and his human companion. He knew he was beautiful by the way people responded to him at first sight. Some dogs, like humans, become stuck-up with feelings of superiority when seeing through our eyes how physically beautiful they are. Not this dog. He was beautiful outside and […]
Power Animal Class Series
Please contact me to register, or, if you do not live near the location of the following 3 classes and would like to host any of them in your state at a later date, or prefer them as a teleseminar or webinar, please call, text, or email me. In Shamanism, power animals are wild. As spirit animals, […]
Help Wild Horses Keep Our Spirits High
We all love the feeling of wild horses kicking up their heels, galloping with manes flying through infinity across America’s great landscapes and the untamed scope of our dreams. Thanks to American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign, […]
Reminiscence of a True Sense of Horse Sense
We hiked up a gold grass foothill in the far eastern edge of Milpitas. Not a tree, not even a trace of green on that hill. Just solid gold rolling up to the big clear blue sky. Atop the hill was a herd of paint, alabaster white, and bay horses. One of the whites perked up […]
Rehabs for Meat Addicts
I could have used the support of a rehab while I was in recovery from meat addiction in 1978. It was pretty lonely back then. Now, you can go online and instantly receive support and encouragement if you’re a vegan newbie, or wannabee. Thanks to All Creatures posting yesterday an article about the new book, […]
The Summer My Love for All Life Began
I kept straight ahead trailing in his wake, in footsteps he and multitudes of others, human and nonhuman—the rats, the roaches, the pigeons—left behind on that sidewalk…some dancing, some not, on my way home. That summer, my dance of love for all life on earth, began. In the summer of ’69, while everyone was at Woodstock, I […]
The Year I Stopped ‘Saving’ Animals
It was early Spring, 1998, Glastonbury, England. I was snuggled against the fence around a pasture of sheep munching on the lush green of their friendly environment, their tails idly wagging at the joy of being alive on that sparkling day. Basking in pastoral delight, my eyes rested on a little lamb prancing up to […]
