by Nate Long | Oct 28, 2025 | Illustration, Journey Work
Reflection and Shadow A quiet pool will hold your face,A liquid portrait, soft and near,It knows your form, your time, your space,But cannot know the thoughts you bear,A lovely ghost, but not the soul. When evening comes, the form extends,A stretch of charcoal upon...
by Nate Long | Oct 9, 2025 | Illustration, Journey Work
She, the Tree, stands highand beckons for us to landSacred groundsConnecting us deep in the soilOpening the sky for our wingsWhere a feather’s tickle tells allUpon a breeze where whistlingComes from the beak of babesSome of us are closer to transformationTo...
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...
