Archive - Exactly Where I'm At - DK Brainard

Reflections on the April 8 total solar eclipse

Growing weary of the "end of days" narrative. We may have hit a new high-water mark for social media fear porn and psyops in the lead-up to the April 8…

Apr 3 •

March 2024

We made a creek

Beneath the weeds and discarded seed trays, a wet-weather spring is discovered. The sweet little creek I had envisioned for three years before we moved…

Mar 13 •

Decide and Win - Prose Version

With link to Rich West and chord progression. After the conversations with my son that I described on the podcast, I didn’t say out loud, “I’m going to…

Mar 9 •

Ep. 4: Decide and Win

Listen now | Talking with the frogs + a new song. Musing about the Muse, songwriting, The Invisible Rainbow, Guided by Voices, and ways of hacking our…

Mar 7 •

20:26

February 2024

Natural rhythms

Dark to light thoughts. One interesting thing I’ve noticed about our off grid experience is how naturally I’ve fallen into more resonance with the…

Feb 21 •

Getting the garden ready for spring | After several days of cold and rain, the weather authorities blessed us with a day of brilliant sunshine and blue…

Feb 15 •

Snowpocalypse Diary

Prepper marks and lessons learned from our first winter off-grid.

Feb 6 •

Ep 3 - Deep Winter

Finger picking, chill blains, and Princess Stephanie of Monaco

Feb 4 •

18:46

January 2024

Chop wood, carry water

New innerstanding of old Zen koan. What I had never considered until this past week — a week we have been calling Snowpocalypse here in the Tennessee…

Jan 21 •

April 2023

Aries solar eclipse + Mercury goes retro

Emergence of the Authentic Self

Apr 19, 2023 •

March 2023

Joy and Sorrow + March Forecast

Listen to a reading of "Joy and Sorrow" from The Prophet set to original music, March astrology forecast is up, plus tonight's Jupiter-Venus conjunction…

Mar 2, 2023 •

February 2023

Rituals of Waiting

On our latest podcast, Phoenix and I talk about February's astrology as being ripe for “rituals of waiting” — activities that engage us with life in a…

Feb 11, 2023 •

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