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Hi Everyone,
First thing’s first: I’m sad to say I’ve bit off a little more than I can chew with the new Daily Cards offering and don’t have the bandwidth to keep doing them. If you signed up just for the dailies and want to cancel your subscription but aren’t sure how to do so, please let me know!
Not that you asked, but the main issue is I’ve a window of about six good hours from the time I wake up to do my reading and writing for the day and if I spend too much time writing I don’t have enough time to read. Reading is an integral part of my writing / spiritual practices, so not getting to read is a problem.
Speaking of reading, if you’re among the millions feeling moved toward Palestinian liberation, Haymarket Books is offering these three books for free and Verso is offering these. I’ve been relishing Audre Lorde’s “Poetry is Not a Luxury,” and specifically the way she articulates feeling as a foundation for taking up big ideas. And so as inadequate and privileged as it may be and seem—I will never forget this headline by Tre Johnson for the Washington Post: “When Black people are in pain, white people just join bookclubs”—experience tells me that times of overwhelming violence and heartbreak really can be and so often are such ripe times for learning. Not learning as in memorizing facts or ideas, learning as in knowing through feeling. Learning as in transformation. As in moving from a sensitized place.
Thank you to those who sent encouragement about the daily cards. I wish I had more time to do them but I don’t, so they’re done now. I do have some upcoming events and offerings to share (see below) with a reminder that paying subscribers get first dibs on these. Some of them—like the one-on-one Divinational Interviews—have so far been available for paying subscribers only because they are limited and tend to go quickly.
If you’ve been curious about the new journaling workshop, EXPOSING SECRET TEXTS TO THE FUTURE, hang tight because registration will open for another round within the next few weeks. We are three weeks into the first cycle with the third round of prompts set to go out later today. I’m doing them alongside the participants and it’s been pretty juicy for me. As in it’s putting me in a mood for big change.