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A Challenge: Let’s Share Our Gifts!

The Healing Focus for Heart of Business this week is about Visibility. It is about allowing ourselves to be seen as who we are and as having the gifts we bring. The challenge after the Remembrance (a kind of Sufi meditation Heart of Business folks often share) was to write about our gifts and strengths […]

Fat or Thin, Let Us Be Kind

The following is my Reflections love letter from 24 September. If you’re looking for the third installment of “Invincible,” it’s the next one down. 🙂     Oh dear ones, this is not the love letter I thought I’d write this week. I find that I am driven–perhaps, if I may be so bold, as Jesus was driven by […]

Authenticity: Part 1

One of the things I consistently hear from readers of both this blog and my Reflections issues that go out each Monday is how much you appreciate my authenticity. And it’s true, I write and speak about things that many other folks might not want to talk about. Authenticity I have written extensively about my experience […]

Fatness and Miraculous Beauty: 1

In all the tumult of life, the daily and hourly news cycle, the seemingly unending slings and arrows of life on Earth, we are reminded by wise ones all over the world that we are also here now, together, and are given the opportunity to fall in love with one another. So as Mary Oliver […]

The Light the Cracks Let Out

Sometimes I call this season the season of relinquishment. As the sun’s light wanes in the Northern Hemisphere, I find myself encouraged to think of what I might want or need to slough off, to let go of, to put down. And sometimes what I want to put down or let go of is perhaps […]

Shifting Stones of Fat and Love

This is a story of a young woman in her twenties, knowing she was powerful, glorious, radiant, sick and suicidal. She was fat, the fattest among her ceremonial colleagues. But she was powerful, physically and otherwise, and she knew it. And this is a story of a femme woman in her forties, no longer physically […]

Fat, Thin, All Children Listen

First, and most important, please know that I am okay. I have a team of folks in my corner. Good, strong people who are helping me take care of myself. I’m just, well…it’s a family reunion thing, and that’s bringing up a ton of stuff. And people, ministers, leaders, teachers, preachers, helpers—we all have stuff […]

A Body of Initiation

O Mighty Dead, for me from Whom my body and spirit have come to be… O Great God Your Femmeself, for me Goddess of my genderpower, beauty, and strength… O Great God Who is Not Gendered, for me the One Who Knows Forward and Backward… O Inexorable! And, as the Bard wrote, “O, for a […]

The Blessings of Limits

Limits. Speed limits. Weight limits. Human limits. I was talking with a dear friend about the concept of limiting beliefs yesterday. For her, the concept of self-care is not about limits; what I call limits are just needs. For her, considering or dwelling on limits is dangerous, as she believes it can keep one from […]

Creatures Have Limits

As I wrote earlier this week, human are limited creatures. In fact, all but God Herself, and maybe not even Them, are limited. We are limited. Our time in these particular configurations of empty space, energy, water, bacteria, and a wee bit of other stuff is limited. Furthermore, our space is limited. None of us […]