The Dry Season — What the Baobab Does When Nothing Grows
For most of the year, the baobab is the easiest tree on the savanna to find. Its trunk is enormous, its branches spread like roots in the sky. Then the […]
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On the Delve — Looking Into What Is
The faith uses a word that sounds like effort. Delve. To dig. To go deep. But the Delve is not a kind of striving. It is a kind of attention. […]
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On Dwelling — What It Means to Inhabit Instead of Achieve
The Baobab does not run. It stands where it was planted, drawing what it needs from the soil beneath it. It does not measure its worth by distance traveled. It […]
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Between the Thoughts — What Silence Opens
Most of our lives happen between one thought and the next. We rarely notice. One idea leads to another, and we are carried along like a leaf on a stream, […]
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Let the Eye See — What Changes When We Stop Looking and Start Seeing
Let the Eye See — What Changes When We Stop Looking and Start Seeing We spend a lot of energy looking. Looking for answers, for meaning, for the next thing. […]
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What Roots Know — On Relationships, Place, and Time
The Baobab does not grow alone. Beneath the soil, its roots stretch wider than its branches, tangling with the roots of other trees. When the wind comes, they hold each […]
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On Ground — What Holds Us When Everything Shakes
There are seasons when the ground beneath us does not feel solid. A diagnosis. A loss that arrives without warning. A door that closes and will not open again. In […]
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The Fruit-Givers — Creating Beauty to Share
We tend to think of spiritual practice as something inward. Meditation. Stillness. Quieting the mind. All of that matters. But the Baobab Eye also teaches a turning outward — the […]
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To Dwell, Not to Achieve — What the Baobab Knows About Being Home
We spend a lot of our lives trying to get somewhere. A promotion. A milestone. A version of ourselves that has finally figured things out. Achievement piles on achievement, and […]
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Stillness Is Not Empty — It Is Full of Knowing
We learned early that knowing comes from thinking. Turn a problem over, examine it from every angle, reason your way through. That works, up to a point. But there is […]