Articles about Oneness

Suckled Stars

October 20, 2022

Languid. Black hole. Exploded sensation. Noisy urgency. Unabashed love. Dissolved. A star was born. My newborn daughter suckled at my breast. She feasted as if there was no tomorrow. Her tiny cheeks puffed in and out, concaved and then plumped, with her efforts to drink me in. Droplets of milk oozed from the corner of…

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End of Watch

August 8, 2022

The funeral cortege for my niece’s husband was long.

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Priestess

July 28, 2021

A lifetime ago, I was invited to “preach” at an Episcopalian Sunday service in Parkersburg, West Virginia, the homeland of my heart.

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Rosary

May 25, 2021

“Ask my family to say the rosary for me, Lin, please,” Grandpa Jim said. My father-in-law’s voice, warmed by a slight Kentucky drawl, a remnant of his birthplace, was fresh in my ear. But his lips had not moved. He lay in a coma, about to die. But I’m only an in-law, I thought, it’s…

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Embodied Spirituality

July 5, 2020

A writing expert and colleague said, “your voice is either fiercely sensitive or sensitively fierce.” Her feedback stopped me in my tracks. I hadn’t thought of myself as “fierce.”

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Balancing Our Stories

July 4, 2020

I’m a natural storyteller, a bard, and I love stories. I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to hold a balance of stories in my heart, stories of happiness and love right alongside stories of pain and suffering.

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Dreaming the Medicine Wheel

May 5, 2020

What started out as a rustic camping vacation ended as a spiritual thunderclap. I suspected that I was guided through life by an unseen force, and after this thunderclap I never again doubted.

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