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1. Dr. Hilary Leighton April 7, 2026 Reply

   Watching these short testimonials reminds me of the experience I had when Deborah came to us at Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC Canada for a weekend workshop about 12 or more years ago now. The images that emerged from my drawings accompany me to this day – were instantly familiar (and yet I could not have “drawn” them freehand for my life) and beloved. One is mounted on bristol board and sites behind my desk and as much of my work as a professor is online, this one is with me, holding the backbone space as well as a lantern (think spritely hermit) and I continue to draw affection for this one each time I remember she is there. The others were equally evocative and one in particular, a creature emerging from the cattails feels like kin from a kairotic time, a deep time, web-memory. This art-making borders the mystical, bridges this to that by illuminating the in-between-nesses where aliveness and soul reside. And Soul Cards (two decks mingled) are part of the practice tools I bring to my graduate ecopsychology class on campus each summer in our morning writing/studio time…I offer them to students on a big wooden platter, an offering of the sacred and there are never any accidents about who gets what image – cosmic alignment! Thank you, dear Deborah for saying yes to your wild gifts and sharing them so generously with the world. Love to you! xo

   1. Deborah Koff-Chapin April 9, 2026 Reply

      Hillary, It is so good to hear from you – and to know how alive the images you created that weekend continue to be. It was a beautiful weekend for me at Royal Roads. I took quiet time with the great trees on your campus each day.

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