I am interested, as a healer and writer, in the inner geography of a person and the outer geography of the terrain as they relate and mirror each other. The world reveals itself in the body and landscape with all its layers and textures evoked by time and memory. Deep healing is explored through relationships and connections that include vulnerability and loss. The details that I attach specific attention to in a place and person are remembered yet mysteriously feel as if I am discovering them for the first time. While embracing the moment, I watch and listen with intention and attention as I enter the liminal space between what is known and what is unknown.

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word “love” here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace, not in the infantile American sense of being happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest, and daring, and growth.

~James Baldwin