“What Does Land Mean?”: A Visual Meditation on Release, Wild Sanctuary and Migration
Ojibwe land, sacred land, posted land. A parcel of more than 40 acres of wooded terrain.
top of page
Blog
"I write to discover what I know."
– Flannery O'Connor
Lavavoth
Jul 7, 20217 min read
Using Creative Expression to Process My Past Life Death in Germany
Creative expression can be used as way to process past life death. One of the ways to accomplish this is through poetry.
Lavavoth
Jul 3, 20218 min read
His Ghostly Presence in the Mirror: Using Creative Writing to Capture Paranormal Experiences
If you are interested in writing about your paranormal experiences, consider using fiction as an option to disclose your story.
Lavavoth
Jun 23, 20214 min read
Using Poetry to Heal Current and Past Life Suffering
The process of writing poetry offers a sense of release and healing. Poetry can also help us to work through current and past life issues.
Lavavoth
Mar 18, 20213 min read
One Step Up, Two Steps Down: A Semi-Poetic Response to Nonlinear Spiritual Development
Resistant to the call, disdainful and intolerant of embarking on such a path, spirituality arrived like a sledgehammer.
Lavavoth
Sep 12, 20203 min read
The Art of Writing: A Pathway to Finding Flow
During flow, self-consciousness diminishes reducing the likelihood of worry, perfectionism and over thinking.
Lavavoth
Sep 8, 20201 min read
How to Fake It 'Til You Make It
Endure, safe-guard,
allocate & squander your best years
to this inscrutable quest.
Then...metamorphosize
into a thing of splendor.
Lavavoth
Sep 2, 20201 min read
The Manse on the Hill
Despair shifts like the tide,
and I am pulled down once again by an undertow of history.
Lavavoth
Jan 31, 20195 min read
Walking Together in a Small German Town
Accounts of an astral visitation with Hans + poem that resulted from the encounter.
Lavavoth
Sep 6, 20171 min read
A Valkyrie’s Love Poem for the Trees
They have destroyed your
beauty, your canopy that once enfolded me into
your splendor.
Lavavoth
Aug 29, 20172 min read
Head Full of Stars (Unrequited Love Poem, Part 2)
Me, dressed in the finest intentions, glancing over, once, and then–the sky opened up. You were heavenly, frightfully sublime...
Lavavoth
Jul 13, 20171 min read
Hurricane Andrew (a recurring dream)
When reality suffuses
our castle in the air,
the yearning resumes its poisoned trail,
weighing the heart.
fogging the mind.
Lavavoth
Apr 2, 20173 min read
Dear Ryan…
You passed away on June 2, 2016, in your house. You left behind a partner, a two-year-old daughter, a sister, a brother, and your parents.
Lavavoth
Nov 16, 20081 min read
Lake Champlain in November
It’s nearly 12pm, windy and with a charcoal gray sky. The trees are bare, exposing large nests that had been carefully constructed...
bottom of page