As a systemic and family constellations facilitator, I've come to understand more potently how captured we are by our own personal narrative. It's as if we live inside our own egoic consciousness and yet we are born into a system, a family of origin, which is also informed by the systems of our ancestral lineages and the cultures, landscapes and way of being that informed those lineages.

By popular demand we bring you this second 2024 session of “Our Lives As Prayer,” a workshop co-facilitated by Elizabeth Cunningham and myself, Kathleen Mandeville at my home, Gateway House Multifaith Sacred Arts Community, Rosendale, NY.

I’ve just finished reading the chapter “Allegiance to Gratitude” in Robin Wall Kimmerer’s brilliant book Braiding Sweetgrass…

This is a WILD STORY….

It is my distinct honor to host Elizabeth Cunningham, author of My Life as a Prayer: A Multifaith Memoir and the award-winning series The Maeve Chronicles at my home, Gateway House Multifaith Sacred Arts Community, Rosendale, NY.

What would happen if the whole world could Lament together?

Winter Moon

Lately, I have been engaging in my winter practice of going outside and gazing up at the winter moon, asking myself: “What is the truest essence of myself that I am dreaming in my winter dream?” The cold heightens the moon’s luminosity; stars seem to crackle through the night sky…

The holiday season with Thanksgiving as its ‘gateway’, evokes a plethora of feelings in many of us. Are we questioning the value of celebrating in the face of world suffering? Are we reminded of the factions and patterns of behavior in our own families?

Lament is a guttural response of protest.

Lament is a fist shake that it be put right.

Lament is a visceral, heartbreaking cry…

Join me in celebrating the launch of a new website and online presence for The Outer Edge, my coaching, consultancy and facilitation practice.

Both professionally as an Episcopal priest as well as personally,

I have traveled a road with grief & death.

They are sacred companions,

great and challenging teachers

who invite us ever more deeply

into the cycle of life.

“You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.”- Ferderico Fellini

Pivot is one word for this moment. ‘Pivot’ comes from Old Provençal, Pua, a tooth of a comb. All is being combed out in this chrysalis time, the snarls we have made. New hybrid forms of theater, music, audience, performance are sprouting with this whole ‘greening’ moment. The world is ‘greening’. We are streaming…

A wild year it has been! Full of events, music, completions, deaths, ceremonies, collaborations, enduring friendships & new ones...all building a foundation on which to ride this vortex of 2020 shift, launching us into this decade of change. I know I am feeling it. From the many conversations I am having, I know I am just 'one among'…