THE PRAYER OF LIFE
All that remains after burning. Sacred ash and a rainbow of bittersweet memories stretched between a living loom of black oak and maple....
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" Thank you for reminding me that beauty lives right where my heart meets the world undefended.
Your writing helps me circle back in to my own heart and bless the places of grief."
~
Eden Ariel Luz, Ashland, OR
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Lara Lwin Treadaway
- Sep 20, 2019
- 1 min
Tending the Unraveling
On my way to Portland to stand with the many other heart warriors and friends of the Earth at City Hall, to sing my grief songs and offer...
Lara Lwin Treadaway
- Jun 21, 2019
- 8 min
REWEAVING THE WORLD
As I head out on this solstice afternoon for a Women's Council by the ocean to explore more ways to be with and hold space for the...
Lara Lwin Treadaway
- Apr 16, 2019
- 1 min
The Kingdom of Heaven
Mother Earth is my church, my cathedral, and my kingdom of heaven. I pray for the day that we remember how to find our places of worship...
Lara Lwin Treadaway
- Jan 7, 2019
- 5 min
SPIRALING INWARD
With the turning of the year came the completion of a vow made to my brother Seth’s spirit three months after his sudden and tragic death...
Lara Lwin Treadaway
- Dec 7, 2018
- 2 min
A WALKING PRAYER
Last weekend twenty five tender hearted grief warriors gathered with me in beloved community to drink deeply from the well of communal...
Lara Lwin Treadaway
- Nov 11, 2018
- 2 min
BORN INTO A DYING WORLD
I spent my 50th birthday last weekend deep in the Redwoods near Santa Cruz, attending a sacred grief and gratitude retreat led by fellow...
Lara Lwin Treadaway
- Oct 28, 2018
- 2 min
THE HEAT OF SUFFERING
The element of fire connects us to the energy of our living hearts and to the sacred, as fire cannot be awakened without the element of...
Lara Lwin Treadaway
- Sep 1, 2018
- 1 min
WE MADE A VILLAGE
We gathered at a house by a creek with an underground stream and journeyed to the ocean and back sharing poetry, walking labyrinths on...
Lara Lwin Treadaway
- Aug 24, 2018
- 2 min
NEVER NOT BROKEN
I was grateful for a full house under the full moon this weekend by the full swell and flow of the ocean for our dance with grief and...
Lara Lwin Treadaway
- Jul 28, 2018
- 4 min
LISTENING TO THE EAST
Of all the strange and numinous events that came to grace last Sunday's "Drinking from the Well: The Sacred Work of Grief" daylong ritual...
Lara Lwin Treadaway
- Jun 3, 2018
- 5 min
LOVING EARTH
Last weekend nineteen brave and beautiful souls gathered together for a three day residential Drinking From The Well Grief Ritual Retreat...
Lara Lwin Treadaway
- Apr 6, 2018
- 4 min
DRINKING FROM THE WELL
Almost a week now since the last Drinking from the Well Grief Ceremony in Oregon until I return there later in the year. Back here in the...
Lara Lwin Treadaway
- Feb 11, 2018
- 2 min
Making Gold
So much gratitude this morning for those who came to do the work of spinning gold from the darkness with me at yesterday's grief ritual...
Lara Lwin Treadaway
- Sep 8, 2017
- 3 min
SETH
What is it you were looking at Seth, my darling brother, when I took this picture of you all those years ago? Were you looking up at the...
Lara Lwin Treadaway
- Aug 6, 2017
- 4 min
FIVE FULL MOONS
Five full moons have passed since I took Storm to the mountain, and as I prepare to visit her again tomorrow another one is rising. More...
Lara Lwin Treadaway
- Apr 11, 2017
- 4 min
THE CRY OF THE EARTH
A few days ago after visiting Storm on the land, I was heading south to take part in a community grief ritual led by soul activist and...
Lara Lwin Treadaway
- Nov 10, 2016
- 3 min
SEARCHING FOR SOULFOOD
And so it was that two years ago I went into the great unwinding, was rendered out of my old hunting grounds and delivered into something...
Lara Lwin Treadaway
- Sep 19, 2016
- 1 min
WILD NEST
An intended two week visit to Wild Nest Ecovillage in Sebastopol, CA, turned into several months of watching the moon pull itself around...
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