Subject: Honoring Indigenous Peoples Day….how?!
Honoring Indigenous Peoples Day….how?!
October 13th, 2024 at 9:00 am EDTHi Friend, Maybe what I really want for Peoples Day is to rest, an Indigenous elder said to Krissy and I at the end of last year's Indigenous Peoples Day celebrations. We had all been part of a multi-day gathering that included public and private ...
Death, Life, and Transformation
September 28th, 2024 at 9:00 am EDTHi Friend, Death changes life. As does birth. And for many people, other major life transitions - marriage (and divorce); a major move; losing a job; moon-blood and menopause; a relationship with a horse; a powerful program of study; an initiati ...
The near impossibility of balance: an equinox missive
September 21st, 2024 at 9:00 am EDTHi Friend, Some moments are just perfect. Yesterday it looked like this: just on the edge of over-ripe tomatoes from our neighbor's garden (grown with our shared compost pile!) and some last-of-the-season yellow summer squash; half a clove of gar ...
Interwoven Ministries" - might this be you?
September 14th, 2024 at 9:00 am EDTHi Friend, Perhaps this phrase, interwoven ministries , might be able to express something that I've been experiencing and noticing amongst clients and students for many years now. If I share with you a tentative definition (afterall, I'm the one ...
Shifting how we learn; shifting how we do the things
September 10th, 2024 at 9:00 am EDTHi Friend, In my last email, I mentioned that I have what I, growing up, called a learning disability, and what is now more commonly known as being on the spectrum of neurological divergences. I mentioned how I spent hours engaging with how my br ...
Recovering from those back to school days
September 6th, 2024 at 10:00 am EDTHi Friend, Oh that first week of September, and the memories and lived realities of going back to school. Excitement. Anxiety. Over-commitment. And often wondering, what part of myself do I put forward in what moment? I remember going back to sch ...
New Episode: Historical Context for Embodied Ethics in the Age of AI
September 1st, 2024 at 9:00 am EDTHi Friend, You might have heard of the podcast, The Emerald hosted by Josh Schrei. I, personally, really enjoy it. (Tho I've gotta say some of my close friends and colleagues actively dislike it, leading to some interesting conversations!). I g ...
"What about me?"
August 23rd, 2024 at 9:00 am EDTHi Friend, Recently, as part of my celebrations for my birthday (I'm a Leo and I totally believe in celebrating all month long), I got to have a special birthday dinner with some remarkable women. As the night went on and we told each other more ...
Mother Law
August 15th, 2024 at 9:00 am EDTHi Friend, I remember the first time I met Wakerakats:se, who often goes by Mommabear. Really I could hardly forget it. It was last December. I was giving a talk at a conference whose theme was, Dismantling White Supremacy/ Doctrine of Discovery ...
Regenerating Time
August 9th, 2024 at 10:00 am EDTHi Friend, One of the (many) cool questions that have arisen in the last few months in Sequoia Samanvaya's world is: How do we create a liturgical calendar that can support sustainable/regenerative economies? And more specifically, What's a tempor ...