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Pedro the Lion Rises from the Ashes With Phoenix

January 22, 2019 The Cultural 1 min read

With ‘Phoenix’, Pedro the Lion’s David Bazan Emerges from the Mines of His Interiority : NPR: By offering up his own interior narrative, Bazan holds a mirror to the self-mythologizing we all do in retracing our own steps. To write Phoenix, Bazan spent time in the namesake city; the soaring

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Becoming Facebook Free

January 14, 2019 Featured 3 min read

I’ve struggled with Facebook for some time. For about the last 2.5 years, I’ve basically wanted to deactivate my account and have even downloaded all my information from it more than once in preparation but then I chickened out or lost my motivation. So I’ve settled

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End of the Year Reflections

January 3, 2019 Creativity 5 min read

We had some friends over for New Year’s, which was a lot of fun and just the right way to close out the year. Having a variety of people from across various social groups gather and enjoy one another’s company was a very real way for us to

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How to Not Always Be Working by Marlee Grace

December 30, 2018 Featured 1 min read

I got this lovely little book for Christmas from a colleague and read it over break. How to Not Always Be Working: a toolkit for creativity and radical self-care by marlee grace is a gentle but profound book on the connections between, work, creativity, and caring for ourselves in this

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Conducting an Annual Review

December 21, 2018 Featured 7 min read

I posted this article last year on a different blog. It’s still pretty useful and worth sharing here for those of you interested in doing an annual review or learning about the process I follow. Some things have adapted or changed for me in the past year but this

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Enneagram Journaling Exercises

December 21, 2018 Blog Posts 2 min read

I am a big a big fan of the Enneagram and have been using it more and more lately in my work for my own personal growth and self-awareness, as with my work with students, and staff. As I was taking some time for reflection at the end of the

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On Learning How to Lose

December 14, 2018 Blog Posts 4 min read

It occurred to me recently how hard it is for people to lose, to give up, let go, or just admit that maybe they had it wrong. Why do we fight tooth and nail to get our own way? While this may not seem all that new, the part of

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Yoda on Renewing the Tradition

December 11, 2018 Renewing Faith 1 min read

I was re-watching The Last Jedi with the family yesterday and the scene with Yoda and Luke at the Sacred Tree with all the old texts hit me like a ton of bricks. Yoda is totally convergent, wanting to see the tradition renewed and remixed, while Luke is seen here

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Introducing Fireweed Coffee Co.

December 9, 2018 Uncategorized 2 min read

This past summer I decided to create a little side-project, roasting coffee and selling it at our weekly farmer’s market and online. Some of you are aware of this, but I have never announced “Fireweed Coffee” on Gathering in Light. The purpose was to really make a creative outlet

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My Most Memorable Travel Moments

November 28, 2018 Travel 4 min read

The best moment of any trip, for me, is when I first step foot off the train (or boat, or plane, or bus, or tuk-tuk, or horse, or…). The whole of the trip is in front me, ripe with possibility. Now Leontes’ eyes were at last opened to his folly.

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Meet the office dog, Taco

November 27, 2018 Dogs 3 min read

Taco is a Corgi who lives with Eva. There was a law in the city of Athens which gave to its citizens the power of compelling their daughters to marry whomsoever they pleased; for upon a daughter’s refusing to marry the man her father had chosen to be her

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Rebuilding Faith Community

November 23, 2018 Renewing Faith 4 min read

W hen we think about renewal and “rebuilding” our faith communities, practices, and programs we are a part of, it is important that we focus on the strengths and places of life so that we are building on that which is most alive, rather than spending so much time or

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