K I N D G R O U N D
May your heart receive sustenance here.
My life has been one of listening to the deeper parts of self and embodying subconscious wisdom. This listening may be likened to surrendering to the unknown and following the will of God. Since 2001, I have had a series of dreams that portend and guide my life. The impetus for this website first came to me in one of those dreams. Through articles published on this website, Instagram, and other venues, I offer education and support for people interested in living a life of wholeness. I write and teach from a position of equality and enjoy collaborating with others. Most importantly, I hope to validate and empower those whose voice has been suppressed.
Everything I do is motivated by a heartfelt desire to share something of authentic value. I live on an extremely small income, and reuse things others have discarded to lighten the load carried by our planet. All that I offer is free, but I graciously accept donations from those moved to gift financial support. This website, like life itself, is fluid and continuously evolving. Long-term “slow” endeavors, worthy of great patience and love, eventually ripen in their own time.
I have compiled general, biographical, and practical information on an About This Website page. The rest of the articles on this site are organized into two main sections, reflecting two complementary bodies of knowledge.
Section I
The Kindness of Presence: Healing and Awakening in the Body contains articles about embodied ways of being, the healing of trauma, subconscious wisdom, and living with a felt sense of wholeness. In my life I’ve discovered that anything held and supported with kind presence, eventually unravels and heals itself.
Inspiring Kind Ground comprises articles about ordinary people, who have overcome significant emotional or physical hardship—people who live openhearted and inspirational lives in spite of their difficulties.
The Art of the Inner Life features meaningful articles accompanied by healing art, which explore themes of presence, wholeness, subconscious wisdom, shadow, trauma, emotions, equality, empowerment, and inner well-being.
Section II
Cultivating Nourishment: The Heart and Roots of Gardening and Foraging
I garden and forage to be intimate with nature and my food source. The food that I gather and grow tastes better, and nourishes and heals more, than anything that can be bought. Nature and plant life feed the spirit even more than the body. As our culture moves deeper into disconnection, self-destruction, and greed; increasing the vitality of one small garden ecosystem, becomes a radical act of power and love. Gardening roots us to the life cycles of other creatures, with whom we share the resources of one interconnected planetary life. Forming reciprocal relationships with wildly free plants, land, and animals; opens pathways of perpetual learning concerning the nature of real sustenance, presence, empowerment, and death.
In 2022, Denny and I moved to the north side of a mountain and are now surrounded by spectacular land and farms. As we settle into our new home, I have begun to write about this change. See Weathering in the Vastness and The Astonishing Thrill of Moving Sheep.
WE HAVE MOVED!
Denny and I relocated northwest to the other side of Vermont!
I hope to find time to update this website to reflect where I am at now.
Check out Denny’s gorgeous HIGHLY FIGURED AND EXOTIC WOOD FOR SALE
