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For redefinition, I was thrown back to myself, to my inner knowing… Marilyn Sewell, Cries of the Spirit The Authentic Voice Project: Week 9 (“Super” Full Moon)… a week late, ooops. I is for (Divine) Intervention/Intuition (The original version of this post turned out to be very long. This is the condensed version which is [...]

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For redefinition, I was thrown back to myself, to my inner knowing… Marilyn Sewell, Cries of the Spirit The Authentic Voice Project: Week 8 (New Moon) H is for Healing The medical world believes healing is taking a patient with a clinical diagnosis and controlling their physical symptoms enough for them to function as “normally” [...]

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For redefinition, I was thrown back to myself, to my inner knowing… Marilyn Sewell, Cries of the Spirit The Authentic Voice Project: Week 7 (Full Moon) G is for God I’m cheating this week by letting others speak for me. I came across this just two days ago purely by “accident” – the timing was [...]

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Gypsy They say she danced from her mother’s womb. They say her first yelps were a song to the ear. They say she was born with the pulsing rhythm of her heart glowing red beneath her golden skin. They say when she was twelve, a white man of the cloth saw her dancing alone by [...]

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For redefinition, I was thrown back to myself, to my inner knowing… Marilyn Sewell, Cries of the Spirit The Authentic Voice Project: Week 6 (New Moon) F is for Fornication When I was six, I learned to pronounce it. At ten, I knew what it meant. And at eighteen it was burned into my chest. [...]

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The Authentic Voice Project: Week 5 (Full Moon) E is for Evil In my opinion the most evil word in the dictionary is, well, evil. It bites, slices, crushes; it infects, sickens, kills. I believe this word is too often thrown around where it doesn’t belong. It instills fear of rejection and shame in those [...]

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The Authentic Voice Project: Week 4 (New Moon) D is for Drive Society says: Drive is good. Drive is what allows one to come from nothing and go to something. Drive makes the downtrodden get up, turns the girl next door into the celebrity on the hill, and gives the death-diagnosis a bill of good [...]

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On the eve of my fourth residency at Goddard College as a IMA-TLA student (Individualized Masters in Transformative Language Arts), I am sitting on the upper level of a gym as my son and two dozen other miniature humans are noisily jumping, swinging, rolling, and springing below me. Might as well be another planet from [...]

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The Authentic Voice Project: Week 3 (Full Moon) C is for Contentment Ahhh, contentment. Society says: Contentment is swinging on a hammock while staring at the sky. It is walking along a beach, hand-in-hand with your love, golden retriever bounding by your side. At least that’s what the commercials would have us believe. But most [...]

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The Authentic Voice Project: Week 2 (New Moon) B is for Belly I considered many “trigger” words for this post: Behavior, Body, Beauty, Blame, but I settled on Belly because… well, I have one. Society says: A woman’s belly should be flat; nay, concave. Low-rise and skinny jeans (practically the only type you can find [...]

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