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For just a moment, Wayne Huxhold laid down his mundane and burdensome life. He just wanted to know what it would feel like to have his toes buried in the forest floor. He closed his eyes to imagine it, having no idea that it would sprout him into a mystical and life-changing journey through the Tree of Life.
"From Roots to Branches" is the account of his psychological, spiritual, and mythic journey of radical transformation. As Wayne began to explore the ever-growing depths of his roots, he began to uncover truths and wisdoms that he could neither deny or ignore. Truths and wisdoms that conflicted with the self-manufactured reality of all he believed was true. His very identity was challenged and eventually collapsed, freeing up space for new life to emerge. A new life based on fresh growth, feeding from his depths and reaching out into spaces never before occupied.
From Roots to Branches
is now available online!

My Interests

The living cycles of plants, trees, molds and moss. I like to experience and explore whatever I see that strokes my curiosities while I walk through woods and wild areas inside and outside of me. I love to watch birds. I currently hold a strong fascination with Pacific Northwest Indian masks, totems and art. I am particularly interested in the stories and mytholgies they hold. I love stories of discovery, growth and renewel. I have a passion for emergent consciousness, mysticism, shamanism and reaching out to live my life in spaces never before occupied.

I'd like to meet:

Living: His Holiness the Dali Lama, Tom Waits, Garrison Keillor (I would like to read poetry on his radio show-I would, heck, why not just put it out there?), Natalie Merchant, the poets Coleman Barks, David Whyte and David Wagoner, the artist Meinrad Craighead, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Ian Anderson and Iggy Pop. Deceased: Richard Brautigan, Joseph Campbell, Walt Whitman, Ranier Marie Rilke, William Blake, Rumi, Mother Teresa, Cheif Joseph Seaweed, Saint Brigit and Jorge Luis Borges. Conversations I would have loved to have overheard: J.R.R. Tolkien & C.S. Lewis, Henry Miller & Salvadore Dali, David Bowie & Andy Warhol.

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Music:

Currently I'm lstening to My-Tea Kind, Moondog, Yo-Yo Ma, Tom Waits, Calexico and Allison Demaree. I often listen to Jethro Tull, Bob Dylan, Natalie Merchant, the Grateful Dead, Train, Oasis, Pearl Jam, old David Bowie, Nirvana, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Santana, Green Day and PJ Harvey.

Movies:

There have been some recent movies that have just blown me away. "The Fountain", "Pan's Labyrinth", "The Bridge to Terabithia", "Short Bus", "I Like Killing Flies" and "Waitress". My favorite old movie is "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari".

Television:

I take a lot of pride in not getting lost in the numbing affects of television. However, I do get lost in "Lost".

Books:

"Trout Fishing in America" & "So the Wind Won't Blow It all Away" by Richard Brautigan, "Another Roadside Attraction" by Tom Robbins, "Grendel" by John Gardner, "The Air Conditioned Nightmare" by Henry Miller, "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman, "The Power of Silence" by Carlos Castaneda, "The Manuscript Found in Saragossa" by Jan Potocki, "Illusions" by Richard Bach, "When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone" by Galway Kinnell, "Steppenwolf" by Herman Hess, "The House of Belonging" by David Whyte and on and on and on...........but the book I love the most is my book, "From Roots to Branches".

Heroes:

Those in the midst of change. The heroes that infuence my daily life are my amazing wife Dianna along with:

The Tree of Life

The Moon CURRENT MOON lunar phase

Brighid

Huxwhukw

Fire is Born

My Blog

First few pages of "From Roots to Branches"

Becoming AwareIt's that dreamlike twilightas I head into the woodsthat lies between me and my homeI'm tired and I'm hotno wind finds its way through the branchesMy shirt smothers me like the skin of a...
Posted by Wayne on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 05:24:00 PST

"Into the Mystery of Me" from "From Roots to Branches"

Into the Mystery of MeDead as a doorknoband searching for my ownI am drawn to the woods where I once felt at homeI am drawn to the path that I once walked alone"or at least thought I walked alone"Appr...
Posted by Wayne on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:44:00 PST

The poem that anchors the last chapter in "From Roots to Branches"

TreeHouseHaving finally fledgedI leaped from the nestinto this bigger worldI'd been nurtured and fedgrown strongerand have learned to feel beyondwhat's just in my headI jumped into the invisible curre...
Posted by Wayne on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:42:00 PST

Excerpt 1 from "From Roots to Branches"

I had another conversation with that wise man I spoke of earlier. I told him what was going on. I told him everything. He asked me a very powerful question, "Why haven't you gone to your Soul?" On...
Posted by Wayne on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:08:00 PST

Excerpt 2 from "From Roots to Branches"

Self-reflection always shows how very crafty my shadow can be. While living under the guise that I was finally embracing the real me, I was actually trying to reinvent myself to be whoever I felt she...
Posted by Wayne on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:23:00 PST

Excerpt 3 from "From Roots to Branches"

In April, I was compelled to do something that really surprised me. I wasn't yet fully comfortable with the idea of trees teaching a spiritual lesson. It seemed logical that a pioneering tree like t...
Posted by Wayne on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 08:01:00 PST

Excerpt 4 from "From Roots to Branches"

Root to DiscoverySailing through this arterydeep into the earthI yearn for the light I see ahead of meI want itI want to be thereI want to feel itthough I don't know what it isThis tunnelthis rootis o...
Posted by Wayne on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 03:48:00 PST

Forward of "From Roots to Branches"

I want to feel alive! Look around you; everything is alive, growing, changing. The entire universe is expanding. I want to jump into the invisible currents of this dynamic dance and be a part of wh...
Posted by Wayne on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:56:00 PST