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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jun 10, 20222 min read
Day 55: Generations & Families
A quiet morning dawns at Hope Springs. My body’s habits of rising at 6 a.m. remain, even though I can feel the physical strains of...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jun 9, 20222 min read
Day 54: White Women's Tears...
Before I met Quanita Roberson, I never knew the entanglement within me about this simple phrase. I had already learned in higher...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jun 8, 20222 min read
Day 53: Continuing the Musing...PoL
Moving the lenses in a little closer to home now… My journey of life, love, and learning will unfold regardless whether anyone else shows...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jun 7, 20222 min read
Day 52: Presentation of Learning - 1
I have a lot of notes and reflections on the Presentation of Learning invitation awaiting me/us, for this final retreat. I had some...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jun 6, 20222 min read
Day 51: Looking Back, Forward
The final retreat for my Fire & Water cohort journey begins this Wednesday, concluding Sunday June 12th. This marks a formal conclusion...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jun 5, 20222 min read
Day 50, then...
Day Fifty … in a 100-day brevity-blog challenge. Seems like a good time to pause, check in, take stock of what I’m learning along this...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jun 4, 20222 min read
Day 49: May All Beings Be Happy...
“You know what unhappy people dislike the most?” my friend asked me when we spoke on the phone today. I paused for a moment, considering...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jun 3, 20222 min read
Day 48: Conspiracy of Gratitude, Part Deux
That conspiracy of gratitude with Tom Gillespie as president of Princeton Seminary seeded a fascinating on-again-off-again companionship,...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jun 2, 20222 min read
Day 47: A Startlement, Nearly Three Decades In...
An elder-friend posits that the circle is masculine in its archetypal structure. I smiled at the dissonance, because in my Women Writing...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jun 1, 20222 min read
Day 46: a Conspiracy of Gratitude
Princeton "inspired" starvation of the feminine, loneliness, yes… …but also offered cherished moments of connections with those whose...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 31, 20222 min read
Day 45: Passions Confused & Confusing
Which is not to say it wouldn’t get confused and confusing, this passion from within. How does a father’s daughter extraordinaire—by...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 30, 20222 min read
Day 44: Passion From Within...
I arrived onto the Princeton Seminary campus early fall of 1993, moving into the Alexander hall dormitory room assigned to me. It was a...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 29, 20222 min read
Day 43: "The Difference a Question Makes..."
I texted a friend after Sunday worship concluded. Today now seems a day to pause, breathe a bit with friends, notice the streams of...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 28, 20222 min read
Day 42: Untethering Gratitude Then...
I first became aware of this internal shift to consider Princeton Seminary with untethered gratitude when a young woman heading into her...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 27, 20222 min read
Day 41: Well, $#!%...
A foreign and familiar start to this day. I find myself easing out of my CrossFit rhythm and into a morning coffee shop visit before...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 26, 20222 min read
Day 40: Honor Ambiguous, Celebration Real
A day of celebration, as the daughter of my closest friend successfully defended her dissertation for the PsyD degree at a local state...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 25, 20222 min read
Day 39: Time in Community...
I’ve been thinking about calendaring, as a verb. How do you calendar your time? Heart-wise? Efficiently? With contemplative neglect? I...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 24, 20222 min read
Day 38: Surprised in Grace
Friendship. For a long time, I thought this was the missing complement to formal communities, be they congregations or educational...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 23, 20222 min read
Day 37: Staying, Showing Up, Not Fixing
I find myself musing on communities I love today, actively running scenarios & concerns through my mind’s-eye. Not unlike ‘worrying’ a...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 22, 20222 min read
Day 36: Attachment in the Stacks
My attachment to books is deep; my practice of release needs to improve as I age. I'm working on it... The renovation of our home, from...
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