by Cate Montana | Feb 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
Where to start? Thinking about pain, the first thing that jumped to my mind was to misquote the first line from Elisabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet 43: How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways. I hate thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach,...
by Cate Montana | Jan 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
People are using the word “overwhelm” a lot lately. They feel overwhelmed by world events and headlines, government goings-on, layoffs, AI, food prices, you name it, experiencing fear, anxiety, uncertainty, and the sense of being caught in a tsunami of...
by Cate Montana | Oct 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
“Zuvuya” is an old Mayan word for the connecting thread between all realities and dimensions, including time. Back in 1988, American New Age spiritual author José Argüelles wrote a delightful book called Surfers of the Zuvuya about time travel across...
by Cate Montana | Feb 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Nobody is sure where the expression “Turtles all the way down” comes from, but it alludes to the mythic idea of the World Turtle supporting the flat earth on its back, evolving slowly through time and space. It’s also a reference to the recursive...
by Cate Montana | Aug 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
In the last year, I’ve been super focused on staying grounded in my body and as in tune with my emotions and feelings as possible. But I really got blind-sided the other day talking with a long-term acquaintance about his latest book project. He’s one of those...
by Cate Montana | Feb 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
My head exploded the other day. Not in a chaotic blast of incoherence, but rather with a fiery cold fury that blossomed and bloomed around me, providing light and life and possibilities. It doesn’t matter the final straw … oh okay … I’ll share. The final straw was...
