Skye Stephenson
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Message from Salmon-Sacred Beauty
Salmon Message – Sacred Beauty Sacred beauty comes From the heart of you When in judgement true Given from the heart of you You love all god’s creations – The big and the small, The infirm and the tall, With openhearted acceptance of them Just as they are. As you flow in your own life Continue reading
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Salmon Spirit Message #1
Salmon Spirit Message #1 My name is Salmon of the vibrant tribe – I ask you what it is that makes you happy, What it is that makes you feel alive? I don’t soar in the sky Like eagle feather – my friend spouse – And I don’t forage through the bushes and tress Like Continue reading
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The Cave and the Candle
It feels good to be writing a healing column again for the Shopper after a four month hiatus at my request. Something in me urged me to “take some time off” from writing this column and I am very grateful that the wonderful folks at the Shopper allowed me a few months break to recharge. Continue reading
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Half past three of my life
Crystal Lake girl Sunshine boy Unruly child Hair in my eyes I try To get by In an upside world Where too much order reigns riot and out of sorts. Crystal Lake girl Sunshine boy That’s what I once was Before too many crimes I didn’t commit Passed before my eyes In ecstasies of feathered Continue reading
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Prayer for my Community
PRAYER FOR MY COMMUNITY Sharing a prayer I wrote for a ceremony that will appear in the 2016 WE ‘Moon Agenda. Dear community, we come to you small spirits on a winding path at the turning of these days, at the changing of the cycles. Please open the way for our small and humble Continue reading
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I I wanted to be other than I I wanted to be you and it and they Anything but I What a terrible I am I! I wanted to be other than I I wanted to be a rainbow a leaf aquiet doe nuzzling in the dark I wanted to be other than I, anything Continue reading
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Bird Songs, Concerts and Healing
I woke up yesterday morning early, just as the summer solstice sun was beginning to shed its fresh light upon the newly emerging day. The head of my bed faces south and along the east wall of the bedroom is a large double window – from which I could see the early sun rays, dappled Continue reading
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The Seventh Path
THE SEVENTH PATH I walk in ways of wisdom, My step is quiet and shy; I walk in the ways of wisdom, I say not a word to you or I. I walk along paths of elms and pine, I walk along trails that wind To a never-ending side I can’t surmise. I walk in Continue reading
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US-Cuban Educational Exchanges and the Culture of Peace
Sharing a second article I co-authored published in the “Forum on International Education” that examined how US students studying in Cuba helped promote a culture of peace. I do believe that in gradual ways having exchanges between students and faculty in the two countries helped contribute in some small way to the diplomatic opening finally Continue reading
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International Education Flows between the United States and Cuba (1959-2005)
As a way of celebrating the recent changes in US policy towards Cuba, I am sharing my research article published in the Journal of Cuban Studies, Vol, 37. This article drew upon my experiences and research into US-Cuban relations, and the role that educational exchanges played in it. Key people in both Cuban and the Continue reading
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