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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 21, 20222 min read
Day 35: Returning to the Mountain...May
One of the gifts of reorganizing the bookshelves upstairs—recovering from the painting marathon of this season—was being reminded of my...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 20, 20222 min read
Day 34: Misadventures of a Seeker
Today was the 'between semesters' office tidy-purge I try to do to mark the passage of one semester to the next. I used to be able to...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 19, 20222 min read
Day 33: How Much Kale is Too Much?
Some would say ANY! A moment of surprise as I offered to make breakfast before our list of nesting-home-chores... "Would you like some...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 18, 20222 min read
Day 32: Restore to What...?
What a great question for me to listen into more deeply as restorative wisdom picks up momentum for me. [Gratitude for Mary Coffey @...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 17, 20222 min read
Day 31: Restorative Wisdom...?
I'm drawn to the phrase restorative wisdom...all while I am averse to trying to share in words what it means. I remember sitting in one...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 16, 20222 min read
Day 30: Oh, How I Wish...
How quickly the human mind shifts, reacts, suffers…about things that in the end are not that big a deal. Oh how I wish… …I’d not turned...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 15, 20222 min read
Day 29: Hestia & Me
What IS it about an orderly home that allows the mind, heart and body to relax? I feel more myself right now than I have in a long...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 14, 20222 min read
Day 28: Always...the More...
At this moment, there is one hour, fourteen minutes left of ‘this semester’ at United. Students are cramming to finish final papers, and...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 13, 20221 min read
Day 27: Amaryllis
Today is a good day to remember birthing days, to celebrate...women's wisdom...grace-filled companionship and abundance for the world......
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 12, 20222 min read
Day 26: Snapshots & Questions
‘Tis the season to be present at multiple venues of church and academy, with various "snapshots"…which means asking again and again,...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 11, 20221 min read
Day 25: Determinedly Helpless
Look closely, to the left. Laser focus, now, for Nala. Curiosity, ease, hunger for the little red squirrel on the porch. Nala cannot help...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 10, 20221 min read
Day 24: Green Wisdom
A surprise gift arrived, sender unknown. I wasn't even sure what it was, to be honest. A toy for Nala? She was definitely interested. The...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 9, 20222 min read
Day 23: Layers toward Hope
I finally got to read Imani Perry’s weekly newsletter, Unsettled Territory, with an eye-catching title for me, Rodney King, 30 Years...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 8, 20222 min read
Day 22: The Difference an Apostrophe Makes
Heather Cox Richardson taught me something about this day that feels juicy. It wouldn't have dawned on me to muse on Mother's Day, to be...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 7, 20222 min read
Day 21: Youth, Mental Health & Dinner
Brian and I had a telling exchange over a weary-uncertain dinner last night. Dinner was certain--grilled chicken, broccolo,...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 6, 20222 min read
Day 20: ...Or Not
What's a woman to do when she has personally experienced the shadow side of her own tradition--demonization of the Feminine, active harm...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 5, 20222 min read
Day 19: Unconditional Regard
A colleague-friend spoke a bemusing story into a pastoral care interview with faculty and students a while back, using the phrase...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 4, 20222 min read
Day 18: Immediate Opportunity then
Ha! Of course...as soon as I put befriending failure amidst a history of performative perfectionism, I receive an immediate opportunity...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 3, 20222 min read
Day 17: Training to Failure
I saw an excellent athlete push past her limits with a barbel this week, teaching me something...not quite sure. She attempted a lift...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
May 2, 20222 min read
Day 16: the Long Goodbye
What is necessary in saying goodbye to someone or something that has actually been gone for a long while? My paternal grandfather,...
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