Skye Stephenson
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Another Kind of Diversity
There are many kinds of diversity we have been attempting to appreciate and honor in recent years. First, we have racial diversity, whose challenges and ramifications we are often painfully aware. Then there is the diversity of lifeforms on our planet, including animals and plants of all types as well as the elemental forces of Continue reading
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The Rich Diversity of You and Us
You are unique – there has been nobody like you ever before and there will be no one quite like you ever again. So take a minute (or a few) to rejoice in you. Love yourself completely just as you are with all your (apparent) imperfections and maladies and quirks. This is part of your Continue reading
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TRIPLE NEW TIMES
I know our official New Year already happened on January first, but there are several other kinds of New Years’ or, better put it, New Times of varying types and magnitudes that will soon be impacting us individually, collectively and cosmically. I am thinking of three in particular that are at hand, or soon to Continue reading
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Clearing and Cleaning for the Year to Come
One of my fondest memories of the year I spent teaching English in rural Japan back in the 1980s was New Years. I was a recent College graduate with minimal preparation for being dropped into a part of Japan that was still quite traditional in mores and cultural patterns. My first New Year’s surprise happened Continue reading
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THESE TIMES
Fourteen years ago, in mid-December, I met the man who I am now married to at a Shopper Christmas party. One week later, my mother passed away peacefully on the night of the winter solstice. I nestled close to her now cool body until the ambulance arrived. This year, there will be no Shopper party Continue reading
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PATIENCE
When my daughter was in nursery school, her favorite song starred a snail and had the following refrain: “Be patient, be patient, don’t be in such a hurry/when you get impatient, you only start to worry.” These words have popped back into my mind in the last few weeks, as we have been dealing with Continue reading
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OFFERINGS
For as long as I can recall, I have been fascinated by the concept of offering and offerings. One of my first writing pieces from third or fourth grade was titled “Death Wish”. It was about an indigenous man singled out to be the blood offering for a ceremony who is rescued at the last Continue reading
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Expansion and Contraction
There are natural cycles and patterns on planet Earth that impact us all, sooner or later. One of these is expansion and contraction. This cycle can be noted in so many aspects of our life and lives. In our breath, we inhale to a certain point as our lungs expand, and when they have reached Continue reading
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Entering the Dark Sun Time
Last year, I attended a workshop with Mexican healer Sergio Magaña at the Open Center in New York City. A portion of this two-day workshop focused on the Mayan/Aztec calendar. Like some of you, I followed the hype around 2012 with its myriad books and scary movies about how this was going to be the Continue reading
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