I spent my college year of my final thesis sitting at dawn in mountain landscapes where there had been fires. Sitting in the silence of a mountain morning counting flora and fauna diversity in past fire zones.  I lived as a young woman on remote mountain ranches, one ranch had the Lakota Medicine Man, Archie Fire Lame Deer visit regularly performing Sweat Lodges and other Traditional Spiritual Ceremonies that I had the privilege of participation.

The foothills of the Rocky Mountains are magic and raw and rugged and still at times and powerful at Storm times. One can become close with lightening, with Moose and Elk and rivers and Stars. One can become connected with the seasons, the cycles, the Soul of Nature and expand in one’s own Soul by the spirit of the wild untamed world of the mountains.

I decided to string the filmed interviews with religious leaders, scholars, kids and everyday folks in the “The Great Mystery” with the beautiful landscapes in the Mountains to magnify the spiritual connection many of us find in the Wild Places, in the waterfalls, in the mountain peaks and skies and rivers. The movie is a journey, through nature, to people, to connect back with wilderness and listen and again hear from people paralleling each individuals path to their own spiritual source. With the question; Where does the Spiritual Source lead us?”

Today I live in the Countryside near Boulder, Colorado on a ranch with my two horses, two dogs, two cats and four birds, as well as the visiting coyotes, Canadian geese, myriad birds, rabbits, voles and the barn mice! All are family on Grace Cottage Ranch. Here I make meditation and Soulfulness and Stillness Practices with the animal family on the ranch.