by Nate Long | Sep 16, 2025 | Illustration, Journey Work
The scent of woodsmoke and damp earth,Has settled on a cool and crisp morning,Whispering a promise of change. We stand at the year’s crossroads,With a harvest to fill our hearts for what’s to comeAnd gratitude, as we release the summer heat. The amber...
by Nate Long | Sep 8, 2025 | Illustration, Journey Work
Not mine, not the fire’s But the third spirit is ours;Safe in sacred light. The Keeper, the Kept, and the Spirit that Holds Them To own something is not to possess it. To truly own something is to enter into a “relationship” with it, assuming the...
by Nate Long | Aug 25, 2025 | Illustration, Journey Work
The Clay, the Seed, and the Arrow We stand on a threshold of mist,the past a faint echo, the future a whisper.Here is the clay we can mold,shaping potential with our hands,a constant becoming. This moment is the crucible,where the unwritten future holds all...
by Nate Long | Jun 20, 2025 | Illustration, Journey Work
When we enter into a ceremony, we do so with trembling hearts and open hands. We come as seekers, carrying the weight of our wounds and the fire of oaur longing. We kneel before the Mystery, offering our songs, our sweat, our silence. Some bring tobacco. Some bring...
by Nate Long | Mar 29, 2025 | Illustration, Journey Work
Step by step we go,Balance found in gentle sway,Trust in each new move. Instinct guides the way,Shifting with the flow of life,Finding ground anew. Hesitate, then charge,Caught between extremes we fall,Striving to hold firm. Wisdom brings us peace,Steps aligned with...
by Nate Long | Feb 26, 2025 | Illustration, Journey Work
Blame and Balance Blame drifts on the wind,seeking faces, hands, and names—never our own breath. We kneel, we reach out,to gods, to laws, to healers,forgetting our hands. Mind’s path bends inward,each step shifting what we see,power starts within. Still, the world...
