Leiah Bowden Lightspeak Blog

Know that I am waiting for you as I always wait for you to be my empty vessel.

We need to be unabashed about who we are. Or if you prefer, Who We are. Right now.

the ravaging of this creek I learned to love as I walked for my health and joy is what COVID has done, destroying what was.

This flow of words, breadcrumbs on a dark path have become a pattern of hopes under which I have placed the fabric of my days during this...

I pray for the holding open of the rock at the edge of hope. I pray for the light never to go out. I pray for my eyes never to close. I p...

Today I completed my project, and I can see my 80s self sinking back into her comfy chair with relief.

When I first connected with the elephant, Pelusa, before her scheduled rescue by the Global Sanctuary for Elephants, I was moved to the c...

Let the unlimited force of All Being rush through your gates

What does "do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God" look like these days?

These sheets of thunderous water cascading though your field of vision are not your tears, although your tears may be rushing from under ...

You are human, and you are angel, and you are animal. You are Creator, and every other created being is Creator...

In addition to loving my mother for all that she was to me as Mom, I now know her as Lakshmi, encouraging me to be generous with myself.

Heartbreak gives birth to new worlds unimaginable beyond the womb. This is the womb: maelstrom. Drift, be blown, notice what is inescapable,

My former husband, Lee, slowed down in every way by Parkinson’s Disease,  lives in a nursing home where I visit him once a week, and yest...

Or maybe that’s not enough. Maybe the affirmation should be: “I’ve come into enough money to solve all the world’s problems and establish...

A big step, today, Lying in the sunshine Alone I forgave myself For being who I am And this is how it comes upon me, this convers(at)ion....

Just in case I begin to think I have it all figured out — and I do, because foolish human I am – once in a while I walk into a glass door...

I’ve begun a new venture: a part-time revival of the strategic communications consulting practice that helped send Seth to college while ...

A few weeks ago, at our first potluck in the aftermath of the ravaging fires, I had a spontaneous conversation in the kitchen here at Ner...

I have been an animal communicator, having meaningful conversations with other species, for many years. Some of these conversations chang...