09/08/2026
About a week ago, I shared with the collective my recent homecoming to Pachamama, the Great Mother, the living Earth beneath our feet. I had begun setting up a simple tent in our backyard, choosing to sleep beneath the stars and immerse myself more intimately in the rhythms of Nature. There was something profoundly healing about stepping outside the walls of the house to connect so intimately to the Earth, the wind, the trees which are my friends, and the songs of medicine from the nighttime creatures.
I was beginning to feel a shift within myself—emotionally, mentally, and spiritually, remembering what it meant to belong to the land rather than simply live upon it. And then, almost immediately after sharing this intention with the collective, the following day, my beloved husband accidentally sent the automatic lawn mower out to perform its duties, forgetting that my little sanctuary was in its path. The mower tore straight through the tent, splitting it in two. I remember feeling incredibly disheartened. I had made plans to spend that day outside, reconnecting with the Earth, the wind, the plants, and the blessed creatures with whom we share this beautiful living world.
But what appears to us as destruction is sometimes simply the threshold between one way of being and another. Several days after the tent was destroyed, we found and purchased an incredible new one. It is enormous compared to the first—large enough to stand upright, walk around, and truly inhabit. It even has an opening for a fireplace, should I wish to gather with the land through the winter months. And as I stood inside this new shelter, I couldn't help but feel that perhaps the first tent had to be sacrificed so that a larger vision could reveal itself. I began thinking about the future—not simply my own relationship with the Earth, but what it might look like to create spaces where others can come home to Her as well. There are portable yurts three times the size of this one. The possibilities began opening before me like a path through the forest. Perhaps what I thought was a broken tent was actually an invitation to dream beyond the smallness of what I had originally imagined.
Because beneath all of this is something far greater than a tent. We are living through a time in which humanity has become profoundly disconnected from the sacred Earth that sustains us. We have forgotten that Pachamama is not merely soil, scenery, or a resource to be extracted from. She is Mother. She is breath, water, soil, seed, animal, forest, mountain, river, fire, and sky. She is the great web of life of which we are not separate, but a part. And perhaps Her call is becoming louder because Her children have wandered so far from home. We are being invited to remember how to listen—to the wind moving through the trees, to the cycles of the Moon, to the birdsong at dawn, and to the quiet language of the land beneath us.
We are not here to conquer Nature, dominate Her, or wage war against the rhythms that sustain us. We are here to remember reciprocity. To live in relationship. To give as we receive.
My little tent being torn in half may have felt like a loss at that moment, but perhaps it was also a ceremonial breaking open. A reminder that when something is destroyed, we do not always need to rebuild it exactly as it was. Sometimes Pachamama is asking us to build something greater. Something more spacious. Something that can hold not only ourselves, but others who are longing for the same homecoming.
I honor the sacred unfolding of existence.
I am honored to be walking this path with you.
Om So Hum
Ra