Autumn's Edge - Harvey On The Drums + Season Preview

Welcome to Autumn’s Edge — that threshold space where we lean toward winter, darkness, and the long soul-season ahead. In this episode of Viral Mindfulness, I check in from Southern California on Monday, November 24, 2025, and share what’s been unfolding at the edge of autumn and winter. I tell the story of Harvey’s seventh birthday trip to Nashville — cowgirl party, barn, drum set and all — and you’ll hear a live audio clip of us recording her very first “drum song” together. Along the way, I reflect on how our rituals of play, lyrics, and basement performances are quietly shaping her creative life. I also open a holiday card I wrote to myself last January and read it aloud — a tender reminder to “deck the halls with cashmere,” surrender to winter, and let my roots rest in the dark. From there, I return to the words of Natalie Goldberg and her book The Great Spring, sharing a passage about creative life as wandering, zigzagging, and always returning to the page, the keys, the brush. This episode is an invitation to dust off your own practice — writing, music, art, whatever it is — and touch it again. I close with a glimpse of what’s coming next: teachings on soul work inspired by Frances Weller, and details about my upcoming Winter 2026 Wise Circle and my new grief group, Good Grief: The Wild Edge Circle.