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prana + alchemy in the quest
that's the purpose of the storm: to untether and reorient the pressure in the atmosphere.
colleen bishop
4 days ago4 min read


12. always home with earth below: new song
I have been playing and writing music for over forty years. A while back, I recorded three albums. Currently, I have about fifty songs...
thompson (tbird) bishop
1 day ago2 min read


11. where is everyone? encountering ecological amnesia
Encountering ecological amnesia is the focus of this blog, which explores the impacts of humans on the wild earth and who we can navigate it
thompson (tbird) bishop
4 days ago4 min read


10: accepting limitations
Exploring how our human limitations can be a gift which brings us deeper into the experience of being alive.
thompson (tbird) bishop
Mar 156 min read


9. poetic interlude: a collection of recent poetry by tbird
a collection of recent poetry by tbird
thompson (tbird) bishop
Mar 112 min read


8. Is fasting hard?
Is fasting hard? This blog explores the interconnected questions about the difficulty of fasting and why one might choose to fast.
thompson (tbird) bishop
Mar 16 min read


7. Thresholds: A meeting of the intangible psyche with the physical real
When we speak of making sacred, thresholds have a few distinct meanings.
thompson (tbird) bishop
Feb 215 min read


6. A time to pause: Whose dreams anyway
The wind blows strong in this glorious light, lines of snow pulled outstretched off the high peaks to my south. The engine quiet, I sit...
thompson (tbird) bishop
Feb 195 min read


5. Climate grief and acceptance
What if the sixth extinction, global climate change (as outlined by the IPCC), habitat loss and deforestation, and the ongoing exploitation
thompson (tbird) bishop
Feb 85 min read


4. On Ecopsychology & Radical
If I mention the word radical, what comes to mind? What do you see or feel?
thompson (tbird) bishop
Jan 316 min read


3. EAGLES, TECHNOADDICTION & WILDNESS: Reflections from Immersive Experiences
It was the shells. They were too thin. The Eagle chicks were not surviving their way into this world.
thompson (tbird) bishop
Jan 246 min read


2. On ceremony and (no)dogma: Everything belongs.
One of the barebones of the ceremony to which we align and were brought into as budding guides is that there are no rules to ceremony–-no...
thompson (tbird) bishop
Jan 115 min read


1. New Year Visioning: Enacting Incorporation Commitments
We stood in the darkened night, moon conjoined with planet over the vast snowfield as the snowy mountain looked upon us from the far...
thompson (tbird) bishop
Jan 94 min read


winter wilderness retreat
embrace solitude, reflection, heart-community, and nature
Admin
Aug 19, 20241 min read


A Story of Juniper + Bare-Boned Fire
Awakened in Attunement with Nature--A Story of Juniper + Bare-Boned Fire         Tucked in groves of golden aspen and ponderosa, nearing...
colleen bishop
Aug 18, 20249 min read


Walking home: Reflections from a summer trail in the Olympic National Park
edited from a soundwalk while backpacking out of the 3rd annual Adult Mountain Quest with Rite of Passage Journeys:...
Admin
May 3, 20247 min read


why encounter wilderness for rites of passage?
To live in a way that is attuned with Earth is perhaps the guided-ally to our most sacred-belonging
colleen bishop
May 1, 20242 min read


what is a wilderness vision quest fast?
The wilderness vision quest journey implies a metaphorical death, (severance), a liminal unknown that is pregnant with meaning...
colleen bishop
May 1, 20242 min read


what is a rite of passage?
Inhabiting Your Life by marking Rites of Passage Just as nature moves according to its inborn death and rebirth pattern, so does the Rite...
colleen bishop
May 1, 20241 min read


"edges of calcified ridge and ether cracked open"—a poetic reflection
Entheos Holding Hands with Sorrow The dark night exposed their red stained lips From tasting the fruit of the underworld —digesting the...
colleen bishop
Feb 20, 20241 min read
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