This fox might seem without motion, frozen, but her stillness is not passive, and her animal silence is not mute. I see her as a feminine spirit, but she can exist in all of us   Riveted yet open to the Heart-dramas we enact, she sees us without fear, without...

We observe certain constellations of family interactions which we have epitomized as the pattern of family interdependence, roles those of destroyer or persecutor, the victim of the scapegoating attack, and the family healer or the family doctor. Nathan Ackerman, 1968...

Alas, we Who wished to lay the foundations of kindness, Could not ourselves be kind. But you, when at last it comes to pass That man can help his fellow man, Do not judge us Too harshly.     Bertolt Brecht  1938   I would recommend Richard Schwarzes’ new book, There...

POWER He is not here to tell us something. Humans make everything about themselves. So of course, some people will deprive him of his Power, see no value in this creature, declare he is inferior because he lives fully without our chattering mind, largely silent in the...

The Beginning (Part 2), Looking with Curiosity. I see that when the protagonist is just beginning, the drama still speaks through them, especially when the familiar dances kick up in their lives. You hear them enact well-worn ways they turn resentfully away or...

But the Beginning is not the End. (Part 1) Assessing where we are in the Work can be difficult, especially as we begin. How ever earnest we are, like any change we move forward and back, in and out of moments of sanity, then back into the misery again. Yet our Persona...

Since feeling is first, who pays any attention/to the syntax of things, will never wholly kiss you.  e.e.cummings It’s a tragedy really, we as partners who wish for love and passion, in our apparently normal emptiness running through the compulsive analytics and...

Some humans prefer to believe in their destructive illusions and ego-invented creeds and are blind to the mammalian need to love the world. But the Fox Queen of this forest long ago recognized what makes her suffer. She has tasted the bitter weeds that numb her soul...

LOVE Today fox is awakened into the spirit of care, which grows tendrils everywhere and has eventual blooms of mutual devotion. Fox’s intuition is that Love is the creative view that encompasses and integrates the world. PLAY Today fox is awakened into Play, an...

WORK Bears have done their own Work which is separate yet intertwined with relational Work. They have learned to compassionately and gently hold their own pain and self-deception. And, so, in the dance of any one day, they are less dependent on practiced steps, less...