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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Nov 282 min read
Nine Days Later...
A day of gratitude, continued rest, curiosity, connection. And finishing Season Two of Outlander , which is a bit dramatically over the...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Nov 222 min read
Listen, Honey...
“Listen honey…I learned over the last couple years that when our bodies start to breakdown…we have to pay attention. … I appreciate you...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Nov 183 min read
Plant Wisdom for Post-Election Prayer
It’s been a while since a tarot pull has so completely challenged and confirmed, both at the same time, invited as I was to pull some...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Nov 103 min read
So That Happened...is Happening
As I said in a at-least-temporarily-final Facebook post: this time was I was prepared and not surprised . About ten days before the...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Nov 33 min read
How Not to Spin...
That would be a book title or compilation I’d pick up today. I know I’m not alone in it, but I also know half of the people–well,...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Oct 293 min read
A Helpful (Anticipatory) Strategy
I’ve been aligned with and financially supportive of a couple “depolarizing America” organizations, but the wisdom nugget for the day...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Oct 263 min read
Eleven Days and Some...
Trust in the divine order of things… A familiar wisdom-teaching by now, recognized these last four years since I first heard it spoken...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Oct 102 min read
The Grand Canadian Pharmacy Cruise
With the right compromised immune-constitution, you too could sign up... For the last eleven days, everyone around me has been on a...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Sep 293 min read
Riding the Chiasmic Ripples
Today is definitely one to mark into the Hess-Maguire Annals, were there such a thing. A wave I rode in my own vocational life converged...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Sep 272 min read
Leaning into Wonder Anew...
So I awake on a full and significant day for me today: a seminary Board meeting with a poignant, impassioned idea for which I also have...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Sep 135 min read
Do Not Do Unto Others...
Vice President Kamala Harris on the debate stage with former president Donald Trump touched a body memory, a sadness and fear of which I...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Sep 64 min read
Catering to Fear or Leading to Wonder?
[Apologies for any repeats -- problems 'publishing', it would seem] Having learned how easy it seems (at least so far) to self-publish on...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Sep 13 min read
Highpoint Muse (Part One?)
One good thing about a couple flight delays–hopefully only 1 delay/flight–is you have time to reflect, to people-watch, to enjoy a glass...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Aug 242 min read
A Moment to Pause...Celebrate
So the summer semester is finally over, tasks completed, responsibilities finished, with invitation now to relinquish, release, and...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jul 102 min read
Now That's FUNNY...
Laughter erupted out of me at odd intervals last night, peppered with pauses of wonder, a shy gratitude, a spacious quiet, before then...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jul 82 min read
Be Not Afraid -- It's in Scripture
What does it take to live on the other side of fear? I’ve been finalizing a manuscript project entitled Living on the Other Side: Sacred...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jun 293 min read
Why Does It Take So Long...?
What does it take for me to remember all that I have at my own disposal to both protect myself and protect the learning environments for...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jun 252 min read
First Distillations - Hope Rising
Six days of heightened awareness, intention, invitation I have had, not intending to speak in Yoda-form but smiling to do so. Though I...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jun 192 min read
What I Apparently Grieve Most
I come to the page today aware of resistance to a deep grief I have stewarded for years now: loss of what used to be trustworthy (as I...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 152 min read
Pleasure-able?
Pleasure is complicated for me, but need it always be so? I’ve been abstaining from this blog while trying to finish a manuscript, which...
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