Home Base Hangout and Community Gathering
Thursday, November 27 at 12pm ET
Hey friends -
Wow - so last week’s email and post about the CEC fundraiser got an incredible response. So much generosity, way beyond my expectations. I’ll share more over the next few weeks. Suffice to say: the CEC will be fine for a while. Actually, we feel like we have a new mandate to offer more, and to do it more effectively. THANK YOU. If you want to stay connected to the CEC’s fundraising efforts – to member stories and impact and all of that – the link to support and subscribe is at the bottom of this page.
In other news …. our next Homebase Hangout is happening over Zoom this Thursday, November 27 at noon, EST. A chance for paid subscribers to meditate together and connect to community and share reports and questions about practice. It’s always a fun time, a true joy for me. Click below to register.
Meditation, Movement, Mystery – British Columbia
May 13-17, 2026
Hollyhock Cortes Island, BC
This will be a different kind of retreat offering from me. Less structured, more room for silence and spontaneity. The idea is to make space for some of the more personalized movements of practice that come through when we really listen.
Hollyhock is perfect for this. The land is charged. Maple leaves the size of serving plates, towering old-growth Douglas-firs and Western red cedars. Mossy quiet in the forest. Clean air rolling in off the sea, the tide sculpting smooth every black and grey stone. Wandering through this landscape – extending our attention out to the more-than-human world – will be part of our practice.
Two of my good friends will be joining me. Scott Davis is a Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner and yoga & movement genius – he will help us connect to our bodies. And Kalen Colson is a nature-based therapist – they will help us connect to the land.
My 16-year-old daughter, Kayla, found out this afternoon that her boyfriend died last night. She hadn't yet told me about him, but they'd been together since July and were planning to have him meet me next week — I would have absolutely loved him! His sister doesn't live at home and found him this morning when she stopped by to see if he wanted to do something. He had been sober since March and relapsed, it was accidental; they think it was laced with fentanyl. His mom works nights, so nobody was home; no one was there to hear his cries for help. This is going to be dreadfully awful for Kayla, and I don't know how to make it okay for her. I'm beyond scared that it will hit her so hard that she'll get upset at some point and end up hurting herself or worse (she used to self-harm and has been hospitalized a few times for wanting to kill herself). I just don't know how to make this okay for her. My poor, sweet baby girl, I just want to help her, and I don't know how! I want to take all of her pain and suffering and hopelessness and I can't! My poor, sweet baby girl... Please hold her gently in your thoughts.