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 10, 2025 | Journey Work
Imagination The drum beat and the dimming of the lights are tools for journey work, as are a quiet room and a focused mind. One of the most important tools, however, is your imagination. For some, this comes more easily than for others, but with practice, it becomes a...
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 | Sep 6, 2025 | Journey Work
Blood Moon From a velvet dark, I emerge,a crimson tide where the moonlight once was.My face, a mirror not of water,but of your deepest, hidden pains.I am the moment of honest reflection,of shadows brought to light. I feel the weight of every tear you’ve held...
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 | Jul 22, 2025 | Journey Work
Walls built from our fearwe called it progress and power,but truth lay outside. Few dare to look out,where silence holds the mirrorthe self waits beneath. Courage turns us back,to whisper what we once knewthe world must be whole. Before memory, before even the sky had...
