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Your Right Livelihood: Join Kathryn Lorenzen and me for an 8-week online/Zoom class Jan. 19-Mar. 23 on your callings and work and/or for a weekend retreat April 1-3. Sign up for our free guide. More here.

Brave Voice: Writing & Singing For Your Life: Kelley Hunt and my next (our 17th annual) Brave Voice is May 15-20, but the early bird rates fly away 11/1. More here.

How Time Moves: New & Selected Poems: Read my new collection of poems, all about time, home, and love, plus the best of my six previous books. More here!

Make Mine an MRI With a Side of Enya and a Rainbow for Dessert: Everyday Magic, Day 1060

October 7, 2021

Question: How many MRIs does it take a claustrophobe to relax? Answer: When Brandon, the wonderful (re: tolerant) MRI tech asked I told him I’ve lost count. Nothing like tunnelling, sleeping, and freaking out at times through two bouts of cancer, plus having some greater risk of other cancers, to make that too many MRIs,

The Changing of the Light: Everyday Magic, Day 1059

October 4, 2021

Beyond the lower temperatures and chigger count, there’s something else that truly distinguishes this time of year: the changing of the light. The blues get bluer, the pinks and oranges get more silvery, and the hazy summer air dries out to clearer edges and hues all around. Summer in Kansas often feels endless, and not

9/11 From the Vantage Point of a Subway Dweller: Everyday Magic, Day 1058

September 11, 2021

Twenty years ago it happened. Ten years ago I wrote this post. So much of it is still true, and there’s so much more to say about the heartbreaking state of polarity, divisiveness, and home-grown hatred in our country. About the pandemic-catalyzed resilience and mutual aid as well as abuse, addiction, anxiety, poverty, and despair.

The Call: Everyday Magic, Day 1057

September 7, 2021

This morning, I gave a short talk at the Lawrence Jewish Community Congregation’s Rosh Hashana service on Shafarot, a calling to live with greater awareness and purpose, to examine what we need to change or release or summon our courage and strength to do, and to be more of a mensch. I ended up, no

In Search of the Big-Ass Trees: Everyday Magic, Day 1046

August 31, 2021

When we went to the Pacific Northwest earlier this month, we had a mission: behold as many big-ass trees as possible. Thanks to our friends Carl and Sara obliging or humoring us, that’s just what happened. Why the big-ass trees? Why not hang out with big marvels of the natural world at this moment in

10 Reasons to Come to Brave Voice: Everyday Magic, Day 1045

August 16, 2021

Kelley Hunt and my 16th annual six-day Brave Voice, Sept. 19-24 in Council Grove, Kansas. We have strong Covid protocols in place to keep everyone protected (all participants must show proof of vaccination, we’ll be spread out and will use masks for big group meetings), and the White Memorial Camp is also very committed to

When Everything's Coming Up Roses: Everyday Magic, Day 1044

August 16, 2021

Kansas roses struggle once summer gets its heat on, but I have found a land where everything is coming up roses: the Pacific Northwest. We were there for Aunt Wilma’s memorial and the family reunion around that gathering, which also included a very special rose garden made from something and by someone Wilma loved very

Let's Talk About Simone Biles: Everyday Magic, Day 1043

July 29, 2021

Let’s talk Simone Biles But first, let’s talk about two gymnasts we don’t know the names of: Elena Mukhina and Julissa Gomez Elena Mukhina, a 20-year-old Soviet gymnast, broke her neck right before the 1980 Olympics when her coach pushed her to practice her balance beam routine although her broken leg hadn’t yet healed. Doing

A Medal for Bravery Finally Delivered After 77 Years: Everyday Magic, Day 1042

July 26, 2021

Saturday I got to watch historic justice: Jarek Piekalkiewicz finally being presented with the Cross of the Brave, known as Krzyz Walecznych in Poland, for his immense courage and heart in fighting for his country in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. The second-highest honor given by the Polish government finally made its way to Jarek 77

The Inner and Outer Wildness That Brings Us Home: Everyday Magic, Day 1041

July 18, 2021

Here’s a post about my new podcast, “Tell Me Your Truest Story.” Please listen to the podcast here. For me, it’s always been the trees and sky, sun wavering on the surface of water, wind making its invisible presence known through the curving of prairie grass, the darkening night sky and the stars that emerge.

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