The North Wind has blanketed Earth Mother once more with fresh fallen snow.

and the promise of rebirth just beneath it.

I sit inside the circle I have drawn with a branch from the birch tree. Sacred, loving guardian

who stands tall against the wind and lends its' strength so generously.

I am safe within this place

I feel no cold, I do not feel the winds that whirl around me

I am warm in the blanket of the…

In less than a year, i have traveled to a far country, began an amazing program for abused women called Women Warriors, watched many people heal from soul wounds,

Healed a few of my own,

waged a spiritual war and won,

new people have come into my life,

I have made friends and been given family  I never knew I'd have,

been loved beyond measure, experienced heaven,

and witnessed those I love watch their own dreams come true.

There have…