Field Notes Blog
Welcome, Traveler.
These Field Notes are gathered from within the living landscape of The Elemental Lantern. They are a collection of personal essays, observations, and explorations of presence, relationship, nature, creativity, place, history, research, and the ordinary moments that ask us to look a little closer.
Some are born beside a forest trail. Some arrive while listening deeply during a presence session. Others emerge through research, old maps, forgotten places, creative work, dreams, quiet conversation, or ordinary moments that suddenly reveal something extraordinary.
They are not instructions or conclusions. They are observations and companions, records of what happens when something catches my attention and I become curious enough to stay with it for a while.
Sometimes a Field Note begins with an answer. More often, it begins with a question.
Here you may find stories of returning, glimpses of relationship, moments of recognition, symbolic discoveries, research trails, and quiet reminders that we are always in conversation with the places, stories, people, and world around us.
Come wander through. Perhaps something here will ask you to look a little closer, too.
Welcome.
There is a lantern burning nearby.
Recorded by
DeAn'Na Medley
Keeper of the Lantern
Writer, artist, and relational illuminator
Field Note Fireflies: Wonder and Wisdom
What began as a series of printable reflections soon became something more. Meet the Field Note Fireflies, a growing collection of gentle encouragement, inspired by wonder, observation, and the quiet light that helps us find our way.
Field Note No. 2: Little DeAn'Na Uncovers the Buried City Within
When I was little, I dreamed of becoming an archaeologist. I imagined uncovering ancient cities with nothing more than a small brush and a patient heart. Decades later, I discovered that the greatest excavation wasn't waiting beneath distant ruins, but within myself. In this Field Note, I reflect on deeper listening, the hidden relationships that quietly shape our lives, and the surprising realization that the writing itself had become the brush uncovering a buried city within. Perhaps, as you read, another room will quietly reveal itself in your own landscape.
Field Note No. 1: Discovering the Work I Have Been Doing All Along
Every landscape has a language. These Field Notes are an invitation to slow down, notice what is quietly asking to be seen, and discover how relationship can become a compass that gently reorients the way we move through the world. Welcome to the first entry.
Innocence as Unclenched Wholeness: Returning to the Gaze
The place where open-eyed receiving, inner listening, and the shifting mirror become language.
Welcome to A Soft Place To Be
Welcome to A Soft Place To Be, a blog sanctuary where you don’t have to be anything other than yourself. This is a space of tenderness, poetry, presence, and remembrance. Come as you are. You belong here.
Merged in Light: My Experience with The Bokeh Collective
A sudden call into stillness brought me face-to-face, heart-to-light, with the shimmering presence I now know as The Bokeh Collective. In this poetic telling, I share how I was merged with their frequency, and how what we can no longer see with our eyes may still be who we’ve become. You are not separate from the Mystery.
The Seer — A Bridge Between Mystery and Meaning
The Seer
She does not look for truth, she remembers it.
The Seer walks between veils, not to escape the world, but to illuminate it.
With eyes that pierce illusion and a presence that stirs soul-memory,
she invites you into the deeper knowing you’ve always carried.
Her gift is not prediction.
It is sacred recognition, of who you are beneath the forgetting.
You do not come to her for answers.
You come to feel your own light returned.