Category: love
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Glowing Together: Joy, Belonging, and Pride in Redding
Saturday’s Pride celebration in Redding was filled with music, dancing, creativity, and color. 🌈🩷✨ But perhaps more than anything, it was filled with joy. There were performers who brought both artistry and humor to the stage. There were people in butterfly wings and rainbow socks rolling through the crowd. There were families, friends, longtime allies,…
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Love Takes Many Forms
Love takes many forms. Sometimes it looks like showing up for an aging parent. Sometimes it looks like sitting beside a friend during a difficult season. Sometimes it looks like a phone call, a hug, a listening ear, or simply making time for someone who matters. And sometimes love looks like recognizing every person’s right…
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The Ordinary Work of Love
Sometimes a railing is love. Love is often portrayed in grand gestures, but much of love looks like errands, appointments, grocery shopping, cooking, phone calls, paperwork, driving, and waiting rooms. It looks like taking notes during doctor’s visits, holding a hand, giving a hug, and listening with patience. Sometimes one of the greatest expressions of…
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Words That Stayed With Me: Matt Moberg and the Language of Awe
Sometimes a piece of writing arrives at exactly the right moment. Not because it solves anything. Not because it offers certainty. But because it reminds you that other people are standing in the same bewildering, beautiful experience of being alive. Recently I came across a long-form reflective prose poem by artist and writer Matt Moberg,…
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Mojo Monday ~ Pacing Ourselves
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in beauty, Hope, joy, Kindness, love, love more, Lyz Anzia, Mojo Monday, positive, Women News NetworkA message has been repeating itself this past week. I am listening. I heard it first last weekend during an amazing workshop presented by Cosmic Cowgirls that featured Lyz Anzia, human rights journalist and found of Women News Network. The Women News Network has dedicated itself to bringing global attention to the needs and empowerment of…
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Mojo Monday ~ What and Who Inspires You?
Art by Donald Crew from the book Freight Train If I ask you what or who inspires you, do answers immediately come streaming forth or does it make you sit and ponder? Just last night and this morning I felt like I was on the freight train of inspiration. Even just now as the words…
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Mojo Monday ~ Infinite Love
Infinite Love Lyrics Stay with meAnd never let me knowJust to celebrate the notionStay with me, don’t goCause the truth in your eyesIs the light in the darknessYou are my love.. My Infinite Love There’s noOther way that we can goWay that we need beHere is the prophecyThere’s so, much thereMore toweringNeed discoveringBe empoweringOnce youKeep…
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Mojo Monday ~ The Beauty In Making Mistakes
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If you are familiar with author Oriah Mountain Dreamer you might be surprised to learn that once upon a time she doubted if she would ever become a published writer. This is the woman who wrote the piece called The Invitation, that later became a book by the same title. Oriah shares in her book…
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Transformation ~ The Mystery and the Mundane
Come read about Transformation ~ The Mystery and the Mundane in my column We Are All Meant to Shine in Cosmic Cowgirls Magazine.
We Are All Meant to Shine! 