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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jul 20, 20222 min read
Day 95: Grief is Praise...
...says Martin Prechtel. I want to say that I knew this to be true, but it took this past weekend to give me a visceral sense of what...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jul 19, 20222 min read
Day 94: Whose Book...?
I’m newly aware that I have baggage within me about my last book, A Companionable Way: the Path of Devotion in Conscious Love. (Cascade,...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jul 18, 20222 min read
Day 93: Unexpected Delight - Tarot
“Will you bring your tarot deck?” asked my cousin via email about a week before our Reunion 2022 was to start. I startled and smiled. “Of...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jul 17, 20221 min read
Day 92: Families...
I have arrived home from Uncle Karl's memorial service (Thursday) and the long-scheduled Hess Family ReUnion 2022 at Maumee Bay State...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jul 16, 20222 min read
Day 91: (Women's) Anger & Hope
I left off a sentence from the Audre Lorde quote yesterday. “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jul 15, 20222 min read
Day 90: (Women's) Anger and What If...?
My relationship to anger is shifting. No one is more surprised than I, except maybe a dear friend who has journeyed with me in our...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jul 14, 20222 min read
Day 89: Hidden Energetics...?
I’m regularly intrigued by the sensation of letting go, or being released, upon the conclusion of a semester, or a circle, or a...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jul 13, 20222 min read
Day 88: Strange Dance Partners
A brief exchange from Sunday has been fluttering around in my awareness this week, affirmation and relevance as dance partners that then...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jul 12, 20222 min read
Day 87: What does positive mean anyway?
Brian and I live in an end-unit of a condo complex, about a five-minute walk from a nature preserve we’ve come to cherish. [Mount St....
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jul 11, 20222 min read
Day 86: Belonging to Myself?
What does it feel like to fully belong to yourself? This question popped into my mind while driving to the 8 a.m. CrossFit class, aware...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jul 10, 20222 min read
Day 85: Surrender Amidst Conviction
A chilled Chardonnay rests here to my right, at a favorite post-Sunday celebration space for Brian and me. Of course, I’m sitting here by...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jul 9, 20221 min read
Day 84: Wisdom on the Move...
Makes you curious, doesn't it? No identifiable brand or marketing ploy... Wisdom on the move...? Thankful...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jul 8, 20222 min read
Day 83: (Take Two; Same Day. Is that Cheating? :):):))
[Rewrite, with more sleep.] The world is an unadulterated MESS. There’s not a day goes by that doesn’t offer a gut punch for the...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jul 7, 20222 min read
Day 82: Some Days...Deep Bow
Belly smile and deep bow to the universe on days when prayers are being answered in the affirmative. Today was such a day. When an...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jul 6, 20222 min read
Day 81: Again...? Are You kidding me?
The changing CrossFit journey has brought a new sentence into my story-telling that I never thought I would utter again. “I’m writing a...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jul 5, 20222 min read
Day 80: I am What I am...and...
I sit tonight at a familiar intersection—who I wish myself to be, and who I actually am. I know this intersection when there is a...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jul 4, 20222 min read
Day 79: I Do Try...
If nothing else, I’m reminded so very clearly of just who is the chef in my household. I smiled to myself tonight, eating my...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jul 3, 20222 min read
Day 78: Ode to Dennis Olson (Princeton Gratitude series)
[Context for Princeton Gratitude series can be found here...] I settled into my hermitage spaces last night, deciding to do a bit of...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jul 2, 20222 min read
Day 77: Growth Unchosen...Impossible to Unsee
Sometimes we grow up in ways we were not expecting, which then urges discernments "unchosen" somehow. The signs of this journey are...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
Jul 1, 20222 min read
Day 76: Releasing the Motherlode...
Last circle held. Accounts and credit cards closed. Financial details for final collaborative circle venture settled, paid. All this...
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