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Hi! Welcome! What to Expect Here🥰
When to Expect it; What I’m About & Who this space is & isn’t for
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A Holograph of Grace
then, there; here, now (after Maya Stein’s “right here, right now” prompt)
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What if there is no timeline to our lessons? (after Maya Stein)
What if delight could be a resuscitation?
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“Please Resume Breathing”
After: “The world I cannot catch,” by Charlotte Matthews
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Conditions for Thriving
Attention & Breath
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What “frantic creatures do”
& how we can keep each other warm
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Divining Poets~Oracle inspiration from Lucille Clifton
In honor of Black History Month, I’ve pulled a Quote for us from Tracy K. Smith’s “Divining Poets Clifton” Quotable Oracle Deck
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Thank You Readers & Writers!
Art as the “Necessary Well” we drink from
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My 1st Hermit: “SCUBA Safety, Getting in to the Water”
aka: “Fully Submerged; How to Breathe: Safety for Mothers of ODPs”
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“You were You, Colleen. You weren’t meant to be Me. Everybody has to be themselves.” (my Mama)
“A fish in its unmanaged elegance does Not long to be a tiger.” Mark Nepo (“Nor a Tiger, a fish.” Me)
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“Trust me, I don’t know what I’m doing” (after Maya Stein~linked below)
But poems & tea (or coffee) seem to help
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The Art of trying Not to “live the whole thing at once”
Wisdom from Naomi Shihab Nye & a few pennies from me
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How can it be Spring without her?
A Poem-Inspired by Annalise Parady, a Maya Stein gathering, & my Mama
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Does Nakedness Make Us Braver?
A new word & some maybe wisdom from a writer, a poet, a philosopher, a money coach & me
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Colleen Krystyniak
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