Author Archives: Deborah

About Deborah

Deborah Jane Milton, Ph.D. is an artist, mentor, writer, mother of four, grandmother of eight. who inspires humanity's Great Turning: our evolution to living as a "whole" human, with headbrain and bodymind collaborating, with science and spirit dancing, with rationality, intuition and the ephemeral co-creating.

Wonder

Posted on September 19, 2010 by Deborah

Every other sentence rivets me. Every other sentence, and this is only a slight exaggeration, pleads with my pencil/pen to underline it. Abram’s elegant descriptions and brilliant syntheses could inspire my responses for days, maybe weeks. What is it about … Continue reading →

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Saying Good-bye

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Deborah

David Abram describes some of the qualities of an “oral frame of mind” in his new book, Becoming Animal – An Earthly Cosmology. ( p 269 ) One of them is knowing that. . .the ability of each thing or entity … Continue reading →

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Naming Mishka

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Deborah

Mishka Born under a trailer and sired by an unknown father, the tiny, yowling kitten tries to climb my pant leg. His caretaker says, “Oh look, the neediest kitten found you. You live alone. Take him.” “Today?” I gasp. He’s … Continue reading →

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Remembering Mishka

Posted on September 11, 2010 by Deborah

September 11, 2010 Remembering Mishka Last weekend a spark ignited in my bodymind. I need to “speak my peace” more publicly. Now that is not a new decision. I’ve been making it and remaking it for at least the last … Continue reading →

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Considering Earth

Posted on September 11, 2010 by Deborah

Everything changes when earth becomes eairth. Eairth, . . . what’s eairth you may be wondering. I’m not sure who coined the word but David Abram describes eairth in his new book: Becoming Animal – an Earthly Cosmology. His colleague … Continue reading →

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Hot Air

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Deborah

“Opposites” delight me. Success and failure, living and dying, scared and sacred. Not contradictions, not dualities but simply the one experience of being aware in my animal body. The ebb and flow of breath and tides, seasons and cycles, thirst … Continue reading →

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One human tribe

Posted on March 6, 2010 by Deborah

03/06/10 Ok, World, I don’t yet know how to program this blog yet. And so I keep putting off writing for it which is just an excuse, isn’t it? So I add a new comment here today and tomorrow will … Continue reading →

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Creation Stories and the Sacrifice of Creation

Posted on January 1, 2010 by Deborah

January 1, 2010 Storynight in the storyhut – a mythic structure and transporter all by itself – bundled around the fire, full moon blue shadows on the canvas walls dancing with the yellow-orange flame flickers inside, singing home our ancestors … Continue reading →