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INVITATION | INSPIRATION

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"With You" Celebrating... | E.W.
Jul 11, 2022
"With You" Celebrating... | E.W.
Jul 11, 2022

Celebrating E.W. being an illumination of Love in this world.

“…with you, I can just Breathe. I don’t have to squeeze my breath or being, and hope that I’m not too loud or too intrusive (to you). I can full diaphragm Breathe. And sing. Full-throated. Ave Regina…

I bow to the cosmic energy embodied in this life as E.W.”

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Jul 11, 2022
Happy Easter! Let's Tidy Up This Old House!
Apr 17, 2022
Happy Easter! Let's Tidy Up This Old House!
Apr 17, 2022

How might our bevy of lifestyle and home improvement shows invite us to imagine Easter in the ritual lectionary year as a day to celebrate how Christ's sacrificial being and living inspires and empowers us to live our own faithful and mutually beloved life journeys?

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Apr 17, 2022

TRANSFORMATION | PROCESS

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Playlist | Honoring & Releasing Being Married
Dec 21, 2024
Playlist | Honoring & Releasing Being Married
Dec 21, 2024
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Dec 21, 2024
Playlist | "Embracing Crone"
Mar 22, 2022
Playlist | "Embracing Crone"
Mar 22, 2022

A playlist to celebrate Crones…because there will be neither hateration nor holleration in the dancerie of life—only Love, justice, and blessed community.

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Mar 22, 2022

JOURNEYING | BECOMING

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Journey Playlist | What I Learned in Loving the Person Who Didn't Choose Me Back
Dec 21, 2024
Journey Playlist | What I Learned in Loving the Person Who Didn't Choose Me Back
Dec 21, 2024

This song answers the question: What if one person doesn’t feel the love, but is still compassionate and caring in how they express it? We can all do this.

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Dec 21, 2024
Lasting Lessons | What I Learned In Loving the Person Who Didn’t Choose Me Back
Feb 18, 2021
Lasting Lessons | What I Learned In Loving the Person Who Didn’t Choose Me Back
Feb 18, 2021

This is an extended shout out for my experience of a person that has been meaningful and formative on the past several years of my life, even though they were not similarly interested.

How do we see and practice Love beyond and above the shallow narrowness of a society that says most love is meaningful and noteworthy only when it’s romantic, and fulfilled only because the folks get together?

Here’s what I’ve learned (so far).

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Feb 18, 2021

BELOVED | COMMUNITY

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Let's Get Lifted
Dec 21, 2024
Let's Get Lifted
Dec 21, 2024

I'm bathing my soul in D Smoke and Beyonce's 'The Gift', some India.Arie and some Jill Scott for the rest of the evening while I work on some important and healing things for life and living.

Dec 21, 2024
Faith Matters Network Reshare | Resources for Collective Healing & Action
Jul 2, 2022
Faith Matters Network Reshare | Resources for Collective Healing & Action
Jul 2, 2022

I am resharing with permission Resources for Collective Healing & Action compiled by Faith Matters Network for activists, organizers, clergy and community leaders in the face of the official repeal of Roe. v. Wade.

Jul 2, 2022