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Weekly Wide-Awake: She Is Allowed Beauty
“L’Siren,” says the Frenchwoman, sliding a faux/ ivory bangle engraved with a mermaid on my wrist./ I run a thumb across fin and scale until I come to her/ face: full lips, round nose, hair dreadlocked. I recognize/ her face, balance her many n...
read moreI like [holiness] much better
I like it much better than "religious" or "spiritual" — to be a seeker after the sacred or the holy, which ends up for me being the really real. – Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor, from the On Being conversation, "This Hunger for Holiness" I found th...
read moreWhat We Are All More or Less Lacking
What we are all more or less lacking at this moment is a new definition of holiness. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin I want to write a new definition of holy. If we see ourselves and others and our earth as holy, would we live differently? I thin...
read moreI Want Him to Know
I want him to know I am not lonely, I have ghosts, I have my illnesses, I have a mouthful of half-languages, & blood thick with medications, doctors line up to hear my crooked heart ― Safia Elhillo, The January Children I am not lonely, I ...
read moreAbout Katie
Born in Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
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