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
When I Told My Body I Loved Her
A dawn body-listening experience became the beginning of Unspoken Letters from the Body, a tender reflection on fascia, self-love, the womb, inner child healing, and learning to hear the body as a lifelong companion.
When I Move Toward Things My Life Opens
What if procrastination isn’t about avoidance… but a pattern of bracing? This reflection explores the moment everything shifted… from resistance to flow… and what happens when you finally stand in your own presence.
Feeling Stuck in Life | A Personal Story of Becoming and Inner Growth
There are moments in a personal growth journey when something shifts without warning. What begins as a simple realization can unfold into a deeper sense of self-discovery, revealing that what once felt like being stuck in life was actually a quiet process of becoming. This reflection explores what it feels like to arrive… and still find yourself emerging.