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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Dec 15, 20222 min read
I Haven't Laughed This Hard in a Long Time...
Which may simply demonstrate my rather adolescent bemusement this morning, but it begs a place to enjoy it, now and in times to come. My...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Dec 13, 20222 min read
What IS a Circle Immersion?
A friend of the family posted on my FB feed, “I’d like to know more about that,” which brings me here this morning. What was the Circle...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Dec 12, 20222 min read
A New Practice? Braving the Fear...
I've learned more why naming my own heart’s desire is fraught for me. Anxious energies swirled within me all month around whether I would...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Dec 2, 20222 min read
When Was the Graduation Again?
An amusing awareness landed in my belly while I was in Denver. It probably wouldn’t have arisen if I’d been there with my rabbi-friend,...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Nov 30, 20222 min read
Manufactured Drama...Anyway
How do I celebrate my capacity for deep feeling…especially when it lands me into imagined dumpster fires of imposition, injustice, fear?...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Nov 22, 20222 min read
A Found Poem -- Flow Game
What has the game learned throughout the years? The game needs a human being to communicate, blending attention with intention billowing...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Nov 19, 20222 min read
The Multiverse Today
An unexpected gift of 90 minutes brings me to the page, disoriented and curious as ever. One of my favorite books of the last year, The...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Nov 17, 20222 min read
But What About Harm...?
I startled, as the denominational representative perceived a differentiation that I did not… We were at a review-team dinner for a UMC...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Nov 14, 20222 min read
What Do You Love?
I sit on the cusp of a new season, wobbling between a persistent inability to name my heart’s desire and an immediate awareness of all...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Nov 13, 20222 min read
Do Your Best
This is a phrase we don’t use much in our home, as B dislikes it. Hearing doing one’s best is an impossible mountain he’s yet obligated...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Nov 9, 20222 min read
Dissolving (Intergenerational?) Fear...
I’m reminded this morning of how intergenerational fear is, even as (sadly) we experience it so exquisitely alone. As a little girl, I...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Nov 8, 20222 min read
So THAT's What Clapback Means...
Entering the dictionary in 2019, clapback (I just learned) is a quick, sharp, and effective response to criticism. Not to be confused...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Nov 6, 20222 min read
Church & Friendship...?
Saturday morning breakfast in my home often includes Brian-observations on things he’s read. He loves to sit, reading several newspapers...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Nov 4, 20223 min read
If We Allow It...
Every once in a while, an author’s story catches my own in a way that gives me hope, grants me a sense of companionship or collegiality...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Nov 3, 20222 min read
Crossing the Mother-NoMo* Divides
Childlessness and childfreedom are terms with much more precise significance in my world today, moving toward elderhood (about which I’ve...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Nov 2, 20222 min read
But Gender is not Real...
...said my friend. I immediately agreed, simultaneously acknowledging its reality within my own setting(s). I find myself mulling over...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Nov 1, 20222 min read
A Fortunate Rejection
I was listening this weekend to Sharon Blackie’s Hagitude when I learned of a global network of childless women, Gateway Women, founded...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Oct 30, 20222 min read
Projection is a Curious Thing...
Mostly, it seems to allow me to place onto another (often whom I love) all those things restless or fearful within myself. For instance,...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Oct 28, 20222 min read
Twice in Twelve Hours...
She’s gonna teach seminary for those who want seminary AND want to lead with Love. A dear Spirit-friend threw this out into a circle of...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Oct 25, 20222 min read
Fallow...Learning Trust?
Fallow time within seasonal change(s) challenge me. I have thrived and learned in a remarkable flow of events these last several weeks....
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