More Frolics

• Messages Float Up from the Bottom of a Storm-Swollen River
  
  Featuring: rain, light-fasting and fast-breaking food, a tree falling, floodwaters, floating snags, a witch cat flying on a broomstick, a fox, a tiny new geranium leaf, a candle, a little bird, and a raven
  
  Themes: release, loneliness, permission, happiness, heaviness, dreams, shoulds, trust, bickering, security, and home


• It Was Mourning and It Was Evening: A Good Day
  
  Featuring: a squashed mantis, kayaks, a dead orange fly, a geranium, Jesus, a one-legged seagull, ravens, a chickadee, the ocean, a stick, a bobcat, the Sun, three translucent pearl-like objects, a backhoe opening a river mouth, a white beach-dragon, pelicans, bees, a figleaf, crickets, a seastar, and a big gray squirrel
  
  Themes: compassion, understanding, animosity, protection, forgiveness, ruin, absence, strength, goodness, realness, love, treasure, and flow


• A Song of Hollows
  
  Featuring: a slug, a big hollow redwood, spider(?) bites, chickadees, spiders, a tiny mystical chapel, ravens, a dragon, a mole, songbirds, unicorns, a mantis, the Lake with Everything Good in It, the Bluebird of Happiness, the Yellow Bird of Freedom-and-Understanding, nuthatches, a buck, and laundry
  
  Themes: brokenness, coping with emotions, belonging, loss, mending, beauty, wildness, fear, healing, emptiness, love, and magic


• Tidal Erosion of Great Joy
  
  Featuring: crashing waves, journey toward a Hill, a relation-ship, a gray squirrel, stellar jays (including Shrieker), gulls, a blood-offering, a bobcat, an egret, human family, a gopher, ravens, an unidentified small dead creature, a watermelon, soundscape-shatterers, hacklemesh weavers, a big river, rosé wine, large rock formations, a fuzzy caterpillar, a beautiful moth, Canada geese, a honeybee rescue, pelicans, oystercatchers, gems, a Labrador retriever, the gaze of the Green Man, music, cormorants, a sunset, a cypress, paintings in the wild, teleportation, a garden spider, redwoods, a cave cricket, and a night visitation from a large mystery critter
  
  Themes: resistance, witchery, courses, nesting, threat, stress, self-care, medicine, trust, transformation, rebuilding, joy, love, safety, stability, friendship, gratitude, power, suffering, mirroring, salvation, counsel, and story


• Revolutionary Nothing, Revolving Everything
  
  Featuring: a cottage by the sea, a pygmy nuthatch, centipedes, mosquitoes, a chickadee in the hand and on the laptop, blackbirds, cave crickets, praying mantises, machines, a visit to the spring, smoke from a prescribed burn, a sasquatch, a dismembered beetle, jays, ducks, and dancing
  
  Themes: disconnection, freedom, love, rejection, protection, redirection, home, belonging, gifts, fighting, old stories, cycles, seeds, the roles of humanity, the work of horror, change, and the nocturnal mind


• Meeting the Storm’s Quiet Fisheye
  
  Featuring: a shapeshifting portal, furred and feathered lookouts, a woman in black, a mountain lion in bronze, a searchlight, salmon in paint and wood, a wide river, goldfish, a dragonfly helicopter, Urdr's Well, a frog, a menagerie in monks' robes, cattails, spirit horses, a garden spider, a dead hawk, a pair of canine boxers, a chicken-headed totem pole (perhaps?), Native fishing platforms, a great blue heron, old airplanes, a variety of deer, wildfire smoke, an abandoned motel, dark sunflowers, a bumblebee on a tomato flower, a cottontail rabbit, black cats, a dead owl, a cottonwood trunk, dead branches, mushrooms, a train, a coughing fit in a movie theater, and sparkplugs
  
  Themes: mystery, purpose, devotion, story, will, transformation, belonging, rescue, balance, clarity, emotional manipulation, gifts, joy, selfishness, torture, dignity in vulnerability, acceptance, wealth, wildness, strength, childlessness, power, energy flow, sadness, and beauty


• When the Wilds Arise
  
  Featuring: moonlight, amaryllises, a wild god, felines, houses, alcohol, the Holy Grail, a bulldozing landlord, extra dimensions, living rock, inklings of Ireland, tea, spiders, poison oak, a fluorite crystal, a paper-wasp nest, stellar-jay feathers, the Bluebird of Happiness, a dead snake, cutting as relief, screeching machines, a resting squirrel, ravens, chickadees, and a jay who does not want a peanut
  
  Themes: wildness, dreams, fear, purpose, reciprocity, belonging, interconnection, love, pain, aging, reparation, imperfection, burnout, weariness, feeling lost, and promise


• Pillars, Petals & Predicaments of the Community
  
  Featuring: pilings, pelicans, cormorants, ants, Jesus, sunflowers, slug slime in a composting bucket, a mysterious light, poison oak, a Roundup-wielding landlord, a swordsboy, redwoods, a book sale, a security guard, a taxidermied fox, a taxidermied great horned owl, shafts of sunlight, shy spiders, wine, lost possessions, returned possessions, jagged glass, milkweed seeds, monarchs, a sign that says NO, a unicorn, trinket-sellers, a great blue heron, a tiny butterfly, ravens, a skunk, a geranium, an underwater dead fly, underwater worms, and a jumping-spider
  
  Themes: wonder, willpower, animism, darkness, secrets, solitude, consequences of hubris, astronauts’ “overview effect,” pain, how love is worth it, floating, death, chronic illness, and the end of the world


• At a Springing-Off Point
  
  Featuring: dead ends, death remnants, a smile of seagulls, a great blue heron, broken things, destructive things, an attempted drowning, the spirit of Mountain Lion, chipmunk drama, dragonflies, a defunct remote radio building, a magic phonebooth, the Magic Mailbox, a raven conversation, ants, spiders, ducks, stellar jays, a honeybee, and a dandelion
  
  Themes: death, purpose, destruction, pain, rage, learning of love (especially for the unloved and the very different), mother-child relationships, harm reduction, courage, romance suspended, and romance rediscovered


• Lion in the Garden
  
  Featuring: gardens, mushrooms, ash, a sleeve caterpillar, a chance to make a wish, ravens, a bay laurel, a dead moth, a grasshopper, a stone that is also a bubble and an egg, sea lions, dancing, dragons, horses, a scarecat, redwood tips, a huge slug, a sea-star, WNDs (weapons of nature destruction), a scorpion, cormorants, a broken pendant, a waterlogged boat, fox poop, pelicans, a human, dragonflies, a pink snail, fire, and moss
  
  Themes: change, growth, death, melancholy, healing, cycles, weariness, clarity, patience, beauty, subdual, intimacy, love, luck, rebirth, uncertainty, time, bitterness, caution, deterioration, attachment, loss, possibility, fear, and joy


• Tidings of Unknown Skies
  
  Featuring: trains, desert, rock formations, melting snow, remote outposts, a castle, rivers, ritual offerings, blessings, old gods, junipers, bare feet, the Moon, ravens, the Sun, inadvertent acupuncture, tent camping, cacti, bones, wide-open skies, expressive clouds, rainbows, wine, deer, hymenoptera, and blossoms from dust
  
  Themes: heart, vastness, growth, flow, transformation, dancing, flight, space, quiet, rest, peace, reciprocity, simplicity, home, belonging, solitude, loneliness, grace, and healing


• More Than Imagined
  
  Featuring: basketweaving, cats, doorways, a baby dragon, the Moon, stellar jays, a spider, a dolphin, a longhorn beetle, bare feet, a dragonfly, flies, a rock-rose plant, the Sun, daffodils, a mushroom, slugs, a dog, milkweed fluff, oyster crackers, a bowling ball, a wart, redwoods, oaks, a tent in the woods, and a censored image
  
  Themes: friendship, loyalty, courage, patience, wealth, trust, love, openness, meaning, absence, home, death, grief, healing, mystery, freedom, tenacity, joy, peace, companionship, darkness, bewilderment, exhaustion, and vulnerability


• Breaking to Be Free
  
  Featuring: a blood offering, ravens, a ring, and a feather
  
  Themes: transition, freedom, companionship, and direction


• Here Comes (More Than) Hope
  
  Featuring: a unicorn, ravens, watchers, cats, mushrooms, T's, ocean shores, steps, ripples in reality, portals, the Sun, the Moon, poison oak, bridges, nuts, bumpers, a big orange thing, and a dragon
  
  Themes: inspiration, belonging, hope, serendipity, joy, fear, growth, simplicity, solitude, dependence, grief, beauty, love, kindness, adventure, aging, and justice


• A New Stage: “What better time to move on, to start anew, than with the waxing of the newest moon of a new year? . . .”