Coming Home Meditation Tuesday 9-10am EST

I'm back on the East Coast! Come join me for meditative weaving and wonder!

Part of an offering I made today to the Earth

Dear Friends,

I want to invite you to join me tomorrow morning (Tuesday) at 9am EST for an hour of sharing and sitting together. Coming Home is a beautiful community healing and meditation practice I’ve been offering for the last four years. It’s open to all and by donation. Suggested donation is $10-20 via Venmo @ElizabethSchuyler-Brown. There is no pre-registration required. You can just click on this link when the time is right:

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Update on Leaving the Hermitage

A couple of weeks ago, I announced my intention to return to the world :) While I still feel committed to this, I’ve been assailed by headwinds…or maybe they’re trade winds blowing me closer to an unexpected destination where riches await! I’d like to believe it’s the latter. If there is anything I’ve learned in my lengthening life it’s this: you don’t always get what you want…but, you get what you need. Oh wait, that’s the Rolling Stones.

A still of Mick Jagger from the 1968 TV special, Rock and Roll Circus…singing about the Devil and looking really lovely. I saw the film here in Hudson this spring with a Q&A with director, Michael Lindsay-Hogg. It was a treasure.

Nonetheless, I have made progress. I reconnected with some dear friends and reached out to my remaining warm contacts in the business world (only those I also consider friends…you know who you are). I’m still working on the edit for Tenacious Magic and seeking a literary agent. I haven’t YET delivered on my promise to paid subscribers, but I have some plans that will begin to trickle out this week. Stay tuned…

A quick note about the mandala I made today (pictured up close above). I call it “Metamorphosis” and it’s dedicated to the Earth at this turning. I found the Monarch butterfly on the road yesterday. It was stunned, not yet dead, but very close. I picked it up, prayed, and carried it home. I sat with it for a while and then let it be on a zucchini leaf for the night. Today, I offered its beautiful body to the Mighty Hudson River.

The tiger lilies are in FULL splendor right now and they were a perfect complement to the butterfly—both the flower and the insect are symbols of resurrection and metamorphosis through the cycles of life and death. The lavender was in my yard and felt like an important addition: love, rest, remembrance, and the violet flame that is the healing power of the Earth herself.

I included two manmade elements in this offering. I almost NEVER do that. Today it felt important. The mandala was about transmutation and there is so much made by mankind that is in need of transmuting. The glass was—unfortunately—all over the banks of the river. I sometimes use sea glass, glass that has been well-tumbled by the waters, but rarely glass that is shattered recently, still with it’s commercial and man-made feel. And the small military boot (can you spot it?) from a doll or action figure was sitting on a picnic table as I walked away. It felt like it was calling to be included, so I broke my rule, returned to the mandala and added it. May we see the end of war and the transmutation of all that pain, fear, and anger into a cleansing grief, rest, and reconciliation NOW. Peace, peace, peace.

Thank you as always for your attention here. It means the world. One way I can thank you is by offering you the energetic space to be and open. Come tomorrow morning!