“Knowing what must be done does away with fear.” Rosa Parks *Note: for those of you feeling oversaturated with content and looking for something actionable, please scroll to the end where I’ve written a summary and bullet point process you can...
We Are Leaving: A Nation Of Women With Wings
Bell Hooks puts into words a question I ask myself on the regular: “How do we hold people accountable…and yet at the...
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What it Means to Be a Spiritual Activist
To Do or Not to Do To put it mildly, there is a bit of an obsession with “doing” in the current market culture. Productivity...
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21 Tips to Creating Less Daily Waste
1) Re-framing Freedom What underlies many of these suggestions is the task of re-framing our conception of what it means to be...
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I grew up an experiential learner, guided by my interests and the love of learning that is natural to all humans. (That’s right; I said learning was natural to all humans.). As a teenager I chose to go to public school for the final two years...
Once upon a time most community events were places where all generations mingled. Elders, youth, children, adults…everybody had a place in the circle when it came to celebration! These days it seems more and more spaces are anything but...
The conversation begins “wow, you mean you actually make a living doing this? You’re so lucky!” Lucky to do what I love, lucky to make ends meet as a young, female, independent singer-songwriter…”Lucky?” Well, I guess that’s one way of looking...
I’m writing about this because one of the biggest, baddest monsters under the bed of most creative writers is the desire to please others. One of the most inspiration-crushing reflexes of the artist is to analyze and judge everything that comes...