Values & Resources

​​honoring

the dreaming otter’s dream is powerful and beautiful.  in it, we each respond with lovingkindness, curiosity, gentleness, and respect to help heal what is broken here planetside.  as the guardian of the dreaming otter, I honor you regardless of age, color, disability, economic background, ethnicity, gender identity, national origin, political affiliation, pregnancy status, race, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or weight, and I recognize the complexity that can arise in each of these identities.

we honor working directly with spirit here, and are united by a shared love of revelatory experience with the mystery.  through working with our helping spirits in trance states, communing with nature, performing ceremonies we create with our guides, engaging stillness through retreat and contemplation, and circling together, we learn and grow.  instead of borrowing from other cultures with rich and specific spiritual heritages and traditions, we respectfully practice universal pathways of direct revelation here.  our helping spirits teach us directly, as humans have done since the dawn of time.

our strong vision includes wellness for the living earth, her systems, and all of her inhabitants, whether they walk on two legs or four, swim or crawl or fly, or exist as nature, elemental, or multidimensional beings.  if you wish to receive them, I send you blessings of peace, ease, and grace.  may we be kind stewards of the earth, and of each other.

​service

service is one of my core values.  below, a handful of wonderful folks I appreciate who are teaching, leading, and healing, and also nonprofits up to amazing and profoundly needed service.  my deepest thanks to those who help and show up, and everyone who contributes kindness, poise, and grace in our complicated times.

in my own small piece of the larger collective, beyond ongoing education to open my heart and mind to important global, social, racial, and environmental narratives, I serve through helping folks in their healing here at the dreaming otter, and quilting for shelter animals.  maximus catimus, my beloved one-eyed boy who faced tremendous hardship, was helped profoundly by a quilt while in shelter.  the unknown kind human who quilted for him introduced me to this work, and I’m so grateful.  if you do such things, happy quilting and donating!

if you’re here and reading, thanks for everything you do to support and cherish the web of life in a kind way.  you’re wonderful, loved, and appreciated.