Dear Friend,

Four years ago, I was in a Temazcal(sweatlodge) ceremony in Teopisca, Mexico and I had a vision about my future. I closed my eyes and saw myself walking down Highway 93 South, a beautiful B.C. mountain highway that I travelled as a child and as an adult. As I walked south down the highway, the highway behind me churned up into an impassable rumble. It was a clear sign that there was no going back to where I had come from. I kept walking and entered a pathless woods. With each step I took, I created my trail. Raven flew above, and I was given the message that the path would be created with each creative endeavor that I embarked on. 

Grow Sideways like the Tree

This is a story to remind you to grow downwards and outwards and you will naturally grow upwards!

Growing upwards as a story of success is one of the great values of the patriarchy and capitalism. We have been conditioned to feel that if we are growing and producing something then we are of value and therefore are on the right path. We have been told this story for generations and therefore have believed it. In my mind, it is not a good story, or a true story and there is an opportunity to tell ourselves a different one.