Deep humble bows to the teachers and the wisdom bringers and spaces that inspire. To speak some of them by name:
Greater Nature, Great Spirit, Ancestor, Land, Spiralic Time
To the teachings of water and stone and spark and breath,
Plant and flower, mycelium,
These humans: Hope Hamling, Stacey Pickering, Samantha Jones, Pieter Bouterse, Quanita Roberson, Tenneson Woolf, Tiffany Carole, Katie Abbott, Katie Kurtz, Kai Kyles
Who have nurtured these practices in me, and to the practices themselves: yoga, earthspirit song, cha dao, friendship, ceremony, art of design, space setting, circle, grief tending, clear seeing, divine timing, trust, prayer, presence, space holding,
To anyone who has come on retreat or gathered in the ethers or lay down on the ground or the healing table with me
and a hug to the teacher within,
To the works of Mary Oliver, Octavia Raheem, Joy Harjo, Rumi, Nayyirah Waheed, Bryonie Wise, and all of the poets and mystics, record keepers and story tellers, musicians and artists,
To the spaces that hold my work, given place for it to exist and evolve: Abide Yoga, Acupuncture First, Affelder House, Hope Springs Institute, Willow Room, Red Clover Ranch, Cleveland Museum of Art, Penland School of Craft, ATNSC,
to you for being here.
And the ripples and expansion of so many beyond,
so
so
so
many beyond
and all the other guides, companions, and collaborators, inspirations, beacons,
one deep breath
and another
as I hold my hand to my heart
of all the names I did not name.
Thank you.