I’ll say this: sometimes a woman has a seed of waiting imbedded in her by circumstance and blood, her life a long exhalation of birthings until the last one out of the canal is herself alone. Sufficient and reveled in solitude.
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A lot of creatures like to shelter under a woodpile, and I was amazed at all that boiled out as I carried the wood from a loose pile to my new stack: wood crickets, skinks, just-hatched fence lizards, a field mouse family, wolf spiders . . . I was slow and let them all find their new places.
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Do not be afraid to speak in public
Gather a crowd
Bring in the Justice Department
I didn’t even know enough to be mad.
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My father was born in the Cherokee foothills along the border between the Carolinas in 1929. His...
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The Braided Way is a framework to see every faith tradition as a strand, braided into a larger whole of spiritual awareness. In the Braided Way, combining spiritual practice from various faiths allow us to explore sacred experience and wonder in forms that resonate with our personal spiritual needs and sacred intuitions. In today’s culture, many people shun religious dogma, but yearn for spiritual connection. The Braided Way allows the ceremonies and practices of multiple faiths to be available without the confinements of cultural dogma.