More Frolics

• Pillars, Petals, and Predicaments of the Community
  
  Featuring: pilings, pelicans, cormorants, ants, Jesus, sunflowers, slug slime in a composting bucket, a mysterious light, poison oak, a Roundup-wielding landlord, a swordsboy, redwoods, a book sale, a security guard, a taxidermied fox, a taxidermied great horned owl, shafts of sunlight, shy spiders, wine, lost possessions, returned possessions, jagged glass, milkweed seeds, monarchs, a sign that says NO, a unicorn, trinket-sellers, a great blue heron, a tiny butterfly, ravens, a skunk, a geranium, an underwater dead fly, underwater worms, and a jumping-spider
  
  Themes: wonder, willpower, animism, darkness, secrets, solitude, consequences of hubris, astronauts’ “overview effect,” pain, how love is worth it, floating, death, chronic illness, and the end of the world


• At a Springing-Off Point
  
  Featuring: dead ends, death remnants, a smile of seagulls, a great blue heron, broken things, destructive things, an attempted drowning, the spirit of Mountain Lion, chipmunk drama, dragonflies, a defunct remote radio building, a magic phonebooth, the Magic Mailbox, a raven conversation, ants, spiders, ducks, stellar jays, a honeybee, and a dandelion
  
  Themes: death, purpose, destruction, pain, rage, learning of love (especially for the unloved and the very different), mother-child relationships, harm reduction, courage, romance suspended, and romance rediscovered


• Lion in the Garden
  
  Featuring: gardens, mushrooms, ash, a sleeve caterpillar, a chance to make a wish, ravens, a bay laurel, a dead moth, a grasshopper, a stone that is also a bubble and an egg, sea lions, dancing, dragons, horses, a scarecat, redwood tips, a huge slug, a sea-star, WNDs (weapons of nature destruction), a scorpion, cormorants, a broken pendant, a waterlogged boat, fox poop, pelicans, a human, dragonflies, a pink snail, fire, and moss
  
  Themes: change, growth, death, melancholy, healing, cycles, weariness, clarity, patience, beauty, subdual, intimacy, love, luck, rebirth, uncertainty, time, bitterness, caution, deterioration, attachment, loss, possibility, fear, and joy


• Tidings of Unknown Skies
  
  Featuring: trains, desert, rock formations, melting snow, remote outposts, a castle, rivers, ritual offerings, blessings, old gods, junipers, bare feet, the Moon, ravens, the Sun, inadvertent acupuncture, tent camping, cacti, bones, wide-open skies, expressive clouds, rainbows, wine, deer, hymenoptera, and blossoms from dust
  
  Themes: heart, vastness, growth, flow, transformation, dancing, flight, space, quiet, rest, peace, reciprocity, simplicity, home, belonging, solitude, loneliness, grace, and healing


• More Than Imagined
  
  Featuring: basketweaving, cats, doorways, a baby dragon, the Moon, stellar jays, a spider, a dolphin, a longhorn beetle, bare feet, a dragonfly, flies, a rock-rose plant, the Sun, daffodils, a mushroom, slugs, a dog, milkweed fluff, oyster crackers, a bowling ball, a wart, redwoods, oaks, a tent in the woods, and a censored image
  
  Themes: friendship, loyalty, courage, patience, wealth, trust, love, openness, meaning, absence, home, death, grief, healing, mystery, freedom, tenacity, joy, peace, companionship, darkness, bewilderment, exhaustion, and vulnerability


• Breaking to Be Free
  
  Featuring: a blood offering, ravens, a ring, and a feather
  
  Themes: transition, freedom, companionship, and direction


• Here Comes (More Than) Hope
  
  Featuring: a unicorn, ravens, watchers, cats, mushrooms, T's, ocean shores, steps, ripples in reality, portals, the Sun, the Moon, poison oak, bridges, nuts, bumpers, a big orange thing, and a dragon
  
  Themes: inspiration, belonging, hope, serendipity, joy, fear, growth, simplicity, solitude, dependence, grief, beauty, love, kindness, adventure, aging, and justice


• A New Stage: “What better time to move on, to start anew, than with the waxing of the newest moon of a new year? . . .”