Shaking the Tree

Video By Youssou Ndour and Peter Gabriel; Filmed in SenegalView here: Shaking the Tree VideoToday I am sharing a video by Youssou Ndour and Peter Gabriel in Senegal , created some years ago. Out of all the videos of this song, I chose this one because it so...

Is Real Love About Compromise?

In my first marriage, I was pretty certain that if you loved someone you needed to be willing to make compromises. Well, I compromised myself right out of the relationship. Here is what compromise translated to for me: “I hear you telling me what you desire, and...

Create Relationships That Work—At Work!

If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time…But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together. —Aboriginal WomanThis powerful quote has practically become a mantra in my life. As I look for...

Dream Your Life or Someone Else Will

This last weekend, some of our initiated women elders came to my house to hold a visioning retreat for the benefit of humanity and the world. As a part of our sacred family, you may actually be feeling some of the benefits that come from being held in their vessel of...

Celebrating Our Humanity

Over the holidays, my sweet husband took me on vacation to a resort in Jamaica. The timing was perfect as I had been called to do some meditative energy work on Christmas day, and there I was surrounded by the enduring ebb of the ocean, as I settled into a...

What We Can Be

A Holiday Letter from Reverend Misa This is a holiday story I seldom tell, but  it seems like the right time for sharing. I was living in Sedona, and staying with friends. It was just a few weeks before Christmas. I’d had a rather average day and went to bed at my...