Category: Soul Notes

What if some of our deepest connections are the ones we cannot see? In this photograph, little mushrooms gather around a tree, tucked among roots and fallen leaves. It makes me wonder about the life unfolding beneath our feet. Below the forest floor, fine fungal threads can connect the roots

What if transformation asks us to surrender before it asks us to fly? I was going through photographs from this summer when I came across these memories from a visit at a butterfly sanctuary. I remembered standing in front of the chrysalises with reverence, looking at those small, quiet forms

I was looking through photographs from a recent walk in the woods just before the leaves started to change when I came across this tree again. I remembered exactly why I had stopped. One of its enormous limbs stretched above the canopy in such a way that it looked almost

Have you ever asked for a sign… and then wondered if you would recognize it when it came? I had been searching for an answer about something in my life. So I quietly asked the universe for a sign. Something specific.A white feather. A short while later, I was walking

For almost twenty-four hours, there was a visitor outside my window who seemed to have nowhere else to be. A praying mantis had settled on top of one of the pale pink roses in my garden. I first noticed him from inside. There he was, perched above the petals, almost

When did everything we do begin to need a purpose? This morning, I turned the page of a little desktop book of quotations and found these words from Oscar Wilde: “Life is too important to be taken seriously.” I smiled—and thought of a photograph I took on a walk: a

For centuries, people looked toward weathervanes for an answer to a very practical question: Which way is the wind coming from? Before weather apps and forecasts arrived in our pockets, the answer mattered. Farmers watched the sky before planting and harvesting. Sailors studied the wind before leaving shore. Communities paid

I found this painting in an antique shop and stood looking at it for quite a while. An older woman sits beside the water, surrounded by ancient, wise mountains.Yet reflected back at her is her younger self. It made me wonder… What if we spend so much time trying to

What if synchronicity isn’t always telling us where to go, but asking us to look more closely at what’s already here? Last week, while traveling, I wandered into an antique shop looking for a bell to use in my healing space. And somehow, I came home with an elephant. 🐘

While traveling recently, I stayed at a cozy little B&B where an old cane rocking chair sat quietly in the room. It was weathered in that beautiful way things become when they’ve been part of people’s lives for a very long time. The cushions had softened with age, their fabric