Hello Fellow Travelers.

"Let July be July. Let August be August. And let yourself just be even in the uncertainty. You don't have to fix everything. You don't have to solve everything. And you can still find peace and grow in the wild of changing things.”

— Morgan Harper Nichols

Not to be too navel gazing and I am deep in contemplations of becoming. Things in my world are shifting and changing, chronic health has been keeping me intimately accountable, demanding an immediacy of presence that puts limits on my future planning. Planning for new events has shifted focus, thinking about longer, slower forms of engagement. Thinking about how to build connections that have depth and flexibility to accommodate emergent realities.

I am incredibly thankful that many of these deep thinkings can happen in nature, thanks to the efforts of my beloveds. I have gotten to spend time with several rivers, Lake Michigan, and before long, Lake Superior. On our visit to Lake Michigan the water had turned over from the deep, meaning that while the air was about 80°F/27°C the water was only 55°F/13°C. There are few things that can clear all other thoughts from my head than dunking myself in water cold enough to have things go numb. It wasn’t quite an ice bath, and it was close. Laying on the sand drying, feeling the sun (thankfully the wildfire smoke had cleared), listening to laughing gulls and children, I was able to just be for a while.

I hope that you can just be for a while. That you can be present with what is emerging as things grow and change.

August Events:

• Sunday, August 16th, Conversations with the Runes. In-Person at Keys to Manifestation in Lansing, MI from 3-5pm. Tickets are available here: https://www.manifestlansing.com/event/hg-wyndell-conversations-with-the-runes-199/register
• Wednesday, August 19th, Grounding and Centering for Kinksters: An Introduction to Defining Space and Self Online class for Wicked Grounds. Tickets are here: https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/adc5102b17​
• Thursday, August 27th, Dressed & UnDressed: Playing With Wardrobe, In-person, at WINK Worcester, MA 6:30pm, vetted event contact me for details.

Upcoming:

• I will be attending Dark Odyssey Summer Camp September 1st-7th (https://darkodyssey.com/summerfest) and will be available for in-person sessions for coaching, lessons, brain picking, tarot, and runes. Please fill out this form if you are interested (form will be open until September 2nd): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc6hoaKqQ45C88F5qWCaQbqr_tu1O0-rsyC1B1nUL6BCmIpYg/viewform?usp=publish-editor

Ongoing:

• Recorded: Introduction to the Northern Tradition: Finding Your Fire
  • Find out more about it and signup here: https://payhip.com/b/c3jRF​
• A list of upcoming events and appearances is available here: https://hgwyndell.com/2026-events-and-appearances/ I will be updating it as things are confirmed.

Food for Thought and Inspiration:

• In the interest of continuing education I have been educating myself around how stories shape culture and the way we talk about our lives. Below are some resources I have been leaning on in the last few months, each of them comes at how stories transmit culture from a different angle:
  • The Landconectedness 101 course from Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen, Ph.D https://nordicanimism.teachable.com/p/landconnectedness-1o1​
  • Folklore 101: An Accessible Introduction to Folklore Studies (Folklore Made Simple) by Dr. Jeana Jorgensen https://folklore101.com/
  • Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature by Farah Jasmine Griffin https://www.farahjasminegriffin.com/​

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May your roads be kind, and your landings soft.

Warmly,

HG