After four years of holding prayers, my Earth Treasure Vase is ready to go home to the Earth. This August, I’m carrying her to a mountain in the northern Rockies — a place that called the vase, and that I’ll be walking to alone. The vase was made at Ghost Ranch under the guidance of Tewa elder and master potter Marian Naranjo, and is dedicated to the healing and protection of the mountain, the watersheds, the oceans, and the water dwellers — both seen and unseen — and to the rematriation of First Nations people, the work of Land Back, and the buffalo herds now beginning to return to their original lands. The pilgrimage will move through a sequence of sacred sites along the way — caves, hot springs, ancient stone, and the lands of the people whose ancestral home receives this ceremony.

I’m putting my own resources into this pilgrimage, and asking for help with travel and lodging — flights, the nights along the route, and the rental car that carries me to the trailhead. Every gift is a thread woven into this ceremony, and I’ll be carrying the names and prayers of everyone who gives with me. If you are in a position to give more, please know that any funds raised beyond the cost of the pilgrimage will go to the community — supporting others called to this work. If contributing isn’t where you are right now, I’d welcome your prayers as I walk.

Walk with me by giving what you can. Every prayer, every dollar, every quiet thought sent my way is part of how you touch the mountain.