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Finding Your Voice(s): Writing Outside Yourself
~ A Poetry MasterClass ~ with poet/singer-songwriter Nathan Brown Wednesday – July 10 9:30 a.m. > 5:00 p.m. Cost $60 Registration limited to the first 24 Embassy Suites Denton, TX Pioneer II Room We often hear the phrase “finding your voice” … Continue reading
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Quadrille Night at the dVerse
Hey the challenge on the bar at last night’s poets pub was to write a quadrille. (The Quadrille combines two essential elements – a single word that has to be included in the body of your text. The second is to limit … Continue reading
When Coyote Shows Up To Play
Several months ago I signed up on Owl & Crow for an on-line course in creating a Major Arcana tarot deck of SoulCollage® cards. It started January 8th, but by then I had forgotten exactly what I had enrolled in. … Continue reading
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Tagged archetype, Coyote, Julie Valin, Kathleen Irving, Major Arcana, Owl & Crow, poetry, tarot, The Fool, Trickster
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The Need for Intersectionality: Repainting Sojourner Truth by AngelaYarber
I’ve long held that feminism, in order to be true and engaged and practical, must be intersectional. Such is also the case, I believe, for LGBTQ rights. The work of justice for women and LGBTQs people must also include justice…
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Hidden Figures – A Different Approach to Promoting Mutuality
The other day, I re-blogged Sara Frykenberg’s post about the impossibility of debating “mutuality,” which I define as the mutual respect required to approach each and any “other” as a peer. The movie, Hidden Figures, starring Taraji Hensen, Octavia … Continue reading
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Tagged creativity, culture, feminism, Hidden Figures, History, Janelle Monáe, Katherin Johnson, movies, NASA, Octavia Spence, racism, Sara Frykenberg, space, Tarji Hensen, Theodore Melfi, Womens' March
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You Can’t Debate Mutuality by Sara Frykenberg
Participating in the Women’s March on Jan. 21st in Los Angeles fed my soul deeply. I didn’t realize how much I needed to protest in this way, how stuck I had been in grief and despair after the election, and…
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ARRIVAL
I’ve seen Arrival twice now. It’s the kind of movie I wanted to share. After seeing it myself, I had to take two of my favorite folks so they too could delight in this incredibly intriguing, suspenseful, atmospheric movie about … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, Amy Adams, Arrival, creativity, Denis Villeneuve, Earth, mind, movies, respect, septapods, space, thinking
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Death and Ambiguity
Originally posted on Two Twitch A Tale:
While Baba Yaga may have her more benign moments, in truth, she is a terrifying creature of great power; a cannibal, said to have devoured the flesh of those whose flaming skulls form…
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“It’s not easy to define poetry.” ~Bob Dylan
I am a lone wolf type of person, preferring to ascertain truth (always lower case) by means of intuition rather than sensation. I make decisions based on logic rather than emotion and my conclusions are subject to change based on … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-intellectualism, Bill Wyman, Bob Dylan, literature, lyrics as poetry, memes, mind, politics and art, Salman Rushdie, truth
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Artemis As Artemisia: Ancient Female Spirituality & Modern Medicine by Stuart Dean
Detail of Artemis from a 5th century BCE Attic Vase (Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)) The 2015 Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded in part to a Chinese woman (Tu) for her identification and isolation to treat malaria of a…
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