A Life That is Holy
This Here Flesh has enlivened and even shaped some of my thinking/feeling in these last months. Author Cole Arthur Riley rises in...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
- May 26
- 2 min
Saying YES in the (Un)Staying
I have been immersed this week in unbelievably numerous pages of my own writing, listening for “energy points” and strands of topics...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
- May 20
- 2 min
Who Do You Want to Be?
Brian and I watched a new Hannah Gadsby special a couple nights ago. She spoke of the fits she would get into, panicked by the question...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
- May 17
- 2 min
Honoring (by) Not Staying
Anyone alongside me these last several years knows my (seemingly unending) ruminations with the word stay. What’s with the staying?...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
- May 16
- 2 min
Shifting the Story - Part One
I come from belonging in the cosmos…and so do you. This phrase mimics the impish wisdom of a friend, LaTanya Wilson, who is known for...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
- May 8
- 2 min
Liveliness...Viriditas
What’s keeping you lively these days? I often ask this of someone when faced with the challenges of small-talk in Midwestern-niceties....
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
- May 6
- 2 min
Cosmological Winks
In 2014, I was led to a natal-chart reading, an intriguing glimpse of the sky from the day I was born. It had strange phrases like Sun...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
- May 4
- 2 min
Grief...First in a Series?
Grief is becoming a doorway into deeper freedom, belonging… Fire&Water voices, particularly Quanita, community mama I’ve written about...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
- May 3
- 2 min
Part II: Elder, Mama, and...
What does the word Mama signify, given I don’t use it in any of my familiar lines? My own mother was first Mommy, then Mom. She’s been...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
- May 2
- 2 min
I cannot call her Elder...
…a clear knowing, even as it seemed to threaten belonging in a circle community I’ve come to cherish. Surprising in its resolution, it...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
- Apr 26
- 2 min
At the Heart of Bewilderment
In ironies of ironies, I’m beginning to bring a more systematic sensibility to my current fascinations with bewilderment, immersed in my...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
- Apr 9
- 2 min
TipToeing at the Tomb
Is this week Jesus-focused for you? a dear friend asked me yesterday. She knows me well...that these days of Holy Week are a time of...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
- Apr 2
- 2 min
Tiptoeing into Holy Week...Forgiveness?
This morning, I awoke acutely aware of it being the formal start of Holy Week, traditionally a thin-space time of high intention for me,...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
- Apr 1
- 2 min
Move Twelve Years In...
I found myself in such unexpected delight yesterday, in the strangest forum you could imagine (if you’ve tracked my journey with...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
- Mar 16
- 2 min
Maybe I AM Writing Another Book...
I am beginning to realize I’m writing the same book over and over again. The time in my life, the community shaping it, the felt...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
- Mar 13
- 2 min
The Way as an Archetype?
I learned something about my own work this week, with startlement and sacred delight. Something encouraged me to pick up Erich Neumann’s...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
- Mar 9
- 2 min
Words Matter...Elder & Spirit-Friend
As I am deepening awareness and confidence in the sacred work I am called to contribute/offer, I find myself in a dissonance of words. A...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
- Mar 5
- 3 min
Still With the Staying...
Several weeks ago, a spiritual director friend asked me, “So what is with the staying?” I have appreciated the question, in multiple...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
- Feb 28
- 2 min
Ahimsa is So Hard...
I first learned this term, short-hand, as do no harm. Further curiosity, exploration, gives a bit more contour for us here: respect for...
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Lisa Magdalena Hess
- Feb 21
- 2 min
Partway Through Portland...
Cross-country family is complicated...and precious. I’m over a day into a too-short visit with my folks. Dad’s shoulder surgery,...
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