by Ariana Saraha | Dec 21, 2022 | Musings
Tools for navigating the dark night of winter solstice. For years now I’ve been practicing slowing down to honor the winter solstice, and still I have to remind myself that it’s OK to do so amidst a culture that wants us to constantly be on our game.
by Ariana Saraha | Dec 7, 2022 | Musings
The Shadow Queen loves the underdog. She herself was scorned for her differences at a young age, made to walk apart from others. So she wandered off into the forest, away from the world of humans and their cruel ways…
by Ariana Saraha | Sep 28, 2022 | Musings
In a moment of tenderness… {a poem} In a moment of tendernessInsecurity rearsI feel sad, anxiousI am too smallI don’t belong And then Ursula K Le Guin heals me with these words:”Look at water… It finds the weak places… Following water we...
by Ariana Saraha | Sep 27, 2022 | Musings
❀ ODE TO SUMMER ❀ Summer is drawing to a close, but I can earnestly say I have loved it well. And gratefully I can say it has loved me as well! I am not yet ready to wrap my cloak around and do nothing but sip cocoa by the fire, but I am listening to the whisper of...
by Ariana Saraha | Sep 22, 2022 | Musings
Of Desolation and Beauty: Thoughts from the Salton Sea {Part 1 of 3} When I first wrote “The Last Days,” I wondered if the questions it asks were too blunt. But mere months later, we headed into a pandemic, and everything else the last few years has...
by Ariana Saraha | Aug 22, 2022 | Musings, News
I set out to fall in love with this place. These beloved lands. Even the pulse of wild nature in my own veins. I began writing the title song in 2013, as its theme beckoned me to trace my roots back to the natural world from which I came…