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• The Antagonism of a Pandemic – The Sacrifice of Our Lives by Karen Leslie Hernandez

  By Karen Leslie Hernandez on April 25, 2020 • ( 3 )

  

  Oh, America. We’ve all seen it in the media. Impatient people demonstrating to end the quarantine. Demonstrators claiming that their jobs are just as “essential” as those of nurses and doctors. Demonstrators blocking traffic in front of hospitals. Demonstrators claiming… Read More ›

• The Phenomenology of Embodiment—a poem by Marie Cartier

  By Marie Cartier on April 24, 2020 • ( 11 )

  

  In these United States and across the world we are in quarantine. Lockdown. Shelter in place. We’re alone together. And I miss it all: restaurants, coffee shops, movies, hanging out with friends in real time, But mostly I miss hugs—and… Read More ›

• Beauty, Blessings and Bistros: The Hawaiian Huna approach to dealing with the virus as well as everyday stresses by Janet Maika’i Rudolph

  By Janet Rudolph on April 23, 2020 • ( 13 )

  

  One of my favorite trainings I have received on my spiritual pathway is with Aloha International. I was ordained as an alaka’i (Hawaiian spiritual guide) in 2016. I began studying Huna intensely in 1997. In 2015, I personally met and… Read More ›

• Dolphin – Friendly Guide, Ambassador of Peace and Play by Judith Shaw

  By Judith Shaw on April 22, 2020 • ( 9 )

  

  Anyone who has seen dolphins frolicking in the sea, understands the allure of these mysterious creatures who live in the water and yet are not fish. Highly intelligent and communicative, Dolphin inspires a sense of joy in our hearts. Often… Read More ›

• Mother Tree Meditation by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on April 21, 2020 • ( 5 )

  

  A couple of days ago after an exhausting day of chores I lay out in the sun in my snow pants against the tree I call the “Mother Pine” because she shelters so many creatures from birds to bears. It… Read More ›

• Safe Hands in the Moria Refugee Camp in Lesbos: A Starfish Project

  By Carol P. Christ on April 20, 2020 • ( 17 )

  

  Imagine that you are a young mother of three from Syria, and that after fleeing your home with your husband and family, you arrived in Lesbos and have been waiting for months to have your asylum papers processed. You don’t… Read More ›

• Self-calming with Syllable Counting and Rhyme Finding by Elizabeth Cunningham

  By Elizabeth Cunningham on April 19, 2020 • ( 37 )

  

  In times of stress, I like to count syllables. It soothes me the way the click of knitting needles might soothe others. Finding rhymes is also calming. Below are poems in forms that require syllable count and/or rhyme, the last… Read More ›

• When the Tomb Feels Safer than the Garden by Tallessyn Zawn Grenfell-Lee

  By Tallessyn Zawn Grenfell-Lee on April 18, 2020 • ( 14 )

  

  I have always loved Lent and Holy Week. When I was young, I enjoyed the challenge of fasting. Holy Week was the powerful culmination of it all, so I would try to make the fast even harder then, like a… Read More ›

• Canada Goose by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on April 17, 2020 • ( 13 )

  

  Canadian Geese have been on my mind a lot lately. This past winter I have missed the skeins of geese that fly back and forth up and down the river appearing every single morning like clockwork. In Abiquiu when winter… Read More ›

• The Practice of Bearing Witness by Stephanie Arel

  By Stephanie Arel on April 16, 2020 • ( 10 )

  

  She looked away and stared out the window, trying to hold back the tears in her eyes. “The tents,” she said and shook her head looking down at the ground. The tears were coming, but softly. I asked her what… Read More ›

• A Time for Reflection by Gina Messina

  By Gina Messina on April 15, 2020 • ( 6 )

  

  We are experiencing much grief and fear in this moment. Many of our loved ones have become ill, or passed on. We struggle with theodicy questions; why would God allow such devastation to occur? However, instead of asking why, as our eyes are being opened to the realities of our world, this is a moment that calls for deep reflection.

• I Am a Progressive because of Not in spite of My Feminist Spirituality by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on April 13, 2020 • ( 17 )

  

  Feminist spirituality is often disparaged in academic feminist and progressive communities. Many of the strongest critics are Marxists, but there is a general agreement that religion is the opiate of the people, a false belief system that diverts energy from… Read More ›

• Monotheism and the Shema: Lessons on Oneness and Unity by Ivy Helman

  By Ivy Helman on April 12, 2020 • ( 3 )

  

  In my last blog post, I explained what we lost when the Israelites became monotheists.  That post looked at the move to monotheism from a more historical, feminist perspective.  In this post, I want to understand monotheism from a more… Read More ›

• Corona: Reclaiming Sovereignty in a Culture of Addiction by Eirini Delaki

  By Guest Contributor on April 10, 2020 • ( 11 )

  

  The moment we live right now is one of its kind in the history of humanity. There´s an expansive wave of uncertainty, fear of death, panic and, at the same time, an expansive wave of creativity, hope, compassion and unity…. Read More ›

• Fierce Grace in Frightening Times by Mary Sharratt

  By Mary Sharratt on April 9, 2020 • ( 23 )

  

    The Covid 19 pandemic had turned our lives upside down on a global scale. What we as a collective could not possibly have anticipated ever happening to privileged Western people has become our new normal as we are forced… Read More ›

• Persistent Beauty by Molly Remer

  By Molly Remer on April 8, 2020 • ( 6 )

  

  I knelt beside a sprinkling of deer fur dotted with delicate snowflakes. Don’t take a picture of that, my husband said, people will think it is gross. I don’t find it gross. I find it curious. I find it surprising…. Read More ›

• “Tree of Life” Dream by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on April 7, 2020 • ( 6 )

  

  Full Seed Moon 3/9/20 I see a beautiful fruit tree that is in full bloom with delicate pink blossoms and a man comes and attacks it violently – Oh, all the blossoms fall away, drifting tears cover the ground. Before… Read More ›

• Coronavirus: The Villain Is Not Mother Nature: It Is Ourselves by  Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on April 6, 2020 • ( 15 )

  

  Over the past few weeks of lockdown in Greece, I have asked myself numerous times: if we can shut down the world economy because of a virus, why don’t we shut everything down until we end war or find real… Read More ›

• “Not If But When” by Barbara Ardinger

  By Barbara Ardinger on April 5, 2020 • ( 8 )

  

  As I’m writing this early in March, the CDC has recently said of the outbreak of the coronavirus (Covid-19) that it’s a question of “not if but when” the epidemic will strike the U.S. As we know, it started in… Read More ›

• Are Your Shackles Showing? Hyperbole, Metaphor or Shades of Reality? by Karen Tate

  By Guest Contributor on April 4, 2020 • ( 5 )

  

  Note: These Comments Might Trigger You You’ve been held in a windowless room for a long time.  So long, you can’t remember how long it’s been.  You have shackles on your ankles.  Sometimes you can see beyond your sleeping pad,… Read More ›

• The Time My Kids Broke Me Out of Jail by Trelawney Grenfell-Muir

  By Trelawney Grenfell-Muir on April 2, 2020 • ( 24 )

  

  When I was a child, I liked and hated the game Monopoly. It was interesting and exciting, but it was also cutthroat, ruthless, competitive, and often seemed to involve cheating by the banker. My vague memories are mostly hurt feelings… Read More ›

• Feeling Squeezed by Esther Nelson

  By Esther Nelson on April 1, 2020 • ( 19 )

  

  Tyler Foggatt, associate editor of The New Yorker magazine’s, “The Talk of the Town series,” recently contributed (March 23) an essay titled “Cooped Up.”  She notes that China, the first country to shut down due to COVID-19, is now in… Read More ›

• The Healing Aspects of Ritual by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on March 31, 2020 • ( 6 )

  

  I have been writing and celebrating ritual for half of my life. The equinoxes and solstices and the cross quarter days (May 1, August 1, All Hallows, and February 2) comprise the eight spokes of the year. What I have… Read More ›

• Last Will and Testament by Carol P. Christ

  By Carol P. Christ on March 30, 2020 • ( 15 )

  

  Just over a month ago and shortly before Greece went into Coronavirus lockdown, I signed the contract on my new apartment in Crete (after waiting 6 months for the owner to submit his paperwork). Though I did not realize it… Read More ›

• A Jewish Amulet against Plague by Jill Hammer

  By Jill Hammer on March 29, 2020 • ( 13 )

  

   I begin with prayers and wishes for all who are suffering because of the COVID-19 epidemic: those who are ill, those who are mourning people who have died, those who face economic hardship, and all who are afraid.  May we… Read More ›

• When Life Hands You Lemons… by John Erickson

  By Dr. John Erickson on March 28, 2020 • ( 5 )

  

  “When life hands you lemons, sometimes you have to make applesauce.”

• Walking in Moonlight Before the Pandemic by Marie Cartier and Kimberly Esslinger

  By Marie Cartier on March 27, 2020 • ( 7 )

  

  For this month’s blog my wife, the poet Kimberly Esslinger, and I have written a joint poem—   Walking in Moonlight Before the Pandemic   and what is done to the least of these…. Where is the god of woman…. Read More ›

• Mourning What Is by Karen Leslie Hernandez

  By Karen Leslie Hernandez on March 26, 2020 • ( 11 )

  

  My daughter has seen a lot in her 29 years. Never was Katy able to play outside alone without the watchful eyes of us, her parents. School became an unsafe haven for mass shooter safety drills. 9/11 brought a whole… Read More ›

• The Mountain and the Goddess by Judith Shaw

  By Judith Shaw on March 25, 2020 • ( 26 )

  

  Mother Earth does not discriminate. She cares for all her children in all their varied forms. Our ancient ancestors considered Earth and its many geological elements to be feminine and/or associated with goddesses – from caves, to rivers, lakes and… Read More ›

• Elder – Berry Musings by Sara Wright

  By Sara Wright on March 24, 2020 • ( 18 )

  

  I first became interested in herbalism as a young mother who kept a small herbal garden outside her back door. There is nothing better than fresh herbs to spice up any dish (as any good cook knows well) and baking… Read More ›

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