Between Root and Sky
Essays on transition, belonging, place, and the life between root and sky. Reflections from the Algarve coast. Carrying our losses as carefully as our loves.
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Equal Light (opens the original)
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Start in the Middle (opens the original)
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Letter to a fellow traveler on the road of life (opens the original)
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The Shaman’s Wife Two Year Anniversary (opens the original)
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I can’t believe it’s been two years since I published The Shaman’s Wife: A Mystical Journey of Surrender and Self-Discovery.The memoir took five years to write. Many of you were witness to the story as it happened. Others registered to receive weekly advance chapters. Your feedback made me believe that my story was worth telling.For readers who enjoyed Eat, Pray, Love but longed for something deep
Empty and Full at the Same Time (opens the original)
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I’ve been spending a lot of time grieving this summer. I didn’t intend it that way. I had planned a summer of exploration, long days languishing on beautiful Algarve beaches, swimming in the evening with Sophie and coffee in the morning light on my terrace.But it didn’t happen this way.It began with the opening of an old wound that I thought had healed. Ecuador. I won’t go into the details here, suffice it to say Ecuador lured me back, to the country, to the people and to the pain.The result of
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