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A Challenge: Let’s Share Our Gifts!

A Challenge: Let’s Share Our Gifts!

October 14, 2018 by Catharine Clarenbach Leave a Comment

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 […]

practice Tagged: fat, femme, practice

Pillage of Spirit and Culture

Pillage of Spirit and Culture

February 8, 2018 by Catharine Clarenbach Leave a Comment

As you know if you read my last blog post, I was on the Bespoken Bones podcast #20. One of the things we talked about in that interview was how discussions of cultural appropriation can be very binary, and that that binary is not always a helpful way to go about having conversation. Let me […]

practice Tagged: cultural appropriation, practice, ritual

No Glitter in My Ashes Part III

No Glitter in My Ashes Part III

February 26, 2017 by Catharine Clarenbach 2 Comments

Who’s Repenting? Another Problem Solved by Truth-Telling So ashes aren’t a problem. Glitter itself may not even be the problem. Blending is a problem. And there is another problem yet. The problem of singling out. In the article to which I am partly responding, the author makes two suggestions:  One, have a glitter + ashes […]

seasons Tagged: catholic, community, holidays, Pagan, practice

The High Priestess – Moon Dancer

The High Priestess – Moon Dancer

February 7, 2017 by Catharine Clarenbach Leave a Comment

When last we left our intrepid adventurer, she was looking at what many consider to be the most “traditional” of Tarot decks, the Rider Waite Smith deck. Specifically, the post concerned the third of the Major Arcana, the High Priestess, Roman numeral II. I invite you to go back to that post if you haven’t […]

discernment Tagged: discernment, divination, practice, spiritual practice

Hospitality of the Holidays?

Hospitality of the Holidays?

December 23, 2016 by Catharine Clarenbach Leave a Comment

In some ways, this is a season of hospitality or its lack. Many of us hear the story of the emigration and return of Joseph and Mary to and from Egypt, reminiscent of the time the Israelites spent in Egypt generations earlier. Many of us hear the story of the pregnant Mary being welcomed by […]

seasons Tagged: community, hospitality, practice, solstice, spirituality, winter

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