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3/16/2022

I understand but I don’t agree.
I agree but I don’t understand
I hate my job but I need the insurance.
I want to but I can’t.
I want to leave but I'm staying.
I want to stay but I'm leaving.
I love this but it’s not real.
He was abusive but he loved me.
I like your refrigerator but I would never get one like that.

What might be the fuller more vulnerable story here, in any of these statements? Write about that. (Borrow from your life or write a fiction piece).

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A Writer's Inbox

3/2/2022

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I get a weekly email from my bread guy. During COVID lock down Cress Springs Bakery delivered to homes in Mount Horeb and Madison. Every Tuesday he would send out a link to order goods. Along with updates on breads and delivery, he would share a poem. More often than not I didn't know the poet. Always the poem resonated with me. During this winter her started up delivery again and in came the poems to my inbox. The one he sent out this week was Small Kindnesses.

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Web of Life Meditation

2/23/2022

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Web of Life meditation is guided meditation that connects us to all the sources of support that surrounds us. By remembering and imagining and sensing we find ourselves in a vast web of support. Supported and nurtured by countless Beings. When ever we need to, we can reconnect with these vast webs of support that have always been here, and remain available to us simply by being mindful.

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Below the Frozen Ground

2/1/2022

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The Lit Path (Stewart Park)

At this time of year, below the frozen ground, seeds stir. This is how everything starts, with this deep inner quivering toward life. Something interior in the seed's quiet dark life knows to awaken, to stir and shimmy. In a few months the stir will become a thrust through the protective shell, through the hard dark earth to sunlight. When we listen and are in sync enough with nature's seasons we too will feel this stirring inside and outside of us. Deep in the belly of our wounds and winters; deep in the darkness of our rich soulful soil is a seed. This seed stirs for your attention.

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The Bigness of Our Singular Acts

1/21/2022

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Goats at Jangle Natural Living

I met Jennifer Parker as a peer therapist about 15 years ago at Harmonia: Madison Center for Psychotherapy. Shortly after meeting Jennifer she joined a spiritual journaling class of mine. “Julie encouraged me to take my writing intention seriously and to ‘follow my calling,’ and to believe I had something to share.”

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Video Series - Living Your Truest Life

1/21/2022

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What brings the most serenity and happiness? How we can discover and follow our truest path?

I invite you to explore what is possible with you by showing up for yourself. Showing up to what you have found of value.

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Writer as Scavenger

1/19/2022

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Twisted & Scavenged (from my walks with Lulu)

I sent a poem of mine to a friend from my life in the Twin Cities. She is a talented poet, artist and author of a fiction.

She sent me a reply asking if I was going to "send it out." And I wrote this poem in response:

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Writing on the Mobius Strip

1/5/2022

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Mobius Strip by Jackie

"I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear." – Joan Didion, Why I Write (essay originally published in the New York Times Book Review in 1976)

In my book The Clue of the Red Thread, actually in all of my books, a core message abides of living life from our side, living life from the inside out.

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Write until your heart is nothing but ashes

12/22/2021

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Write until your heart is nothing but ashes is taken from this excerpt from a Barry Lopez lecture, 2008:

"I wondered what it meant to be a story teller—the saying of what one imagines, which includes poetry. What does that kind of person do? ...

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Breaking my Silence

12/17/2021

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There are so many ways we are silenced or silence ourselves. Speaking up, sharing ideas, confronting injustices, and challenging passive (micro) aggressions can cause a great deal of discomfort. I nearly put this article away for good, being silenced by the idea “too much time has passed.” (So therefore it’s forgotten and we all have gotten on to other [better?] concerns.)

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Author and counselor Julie Tallard Johnson

I live in Mount Horeb WI where I walk (snow shoe in the winter) my dogs through Stewart Park or Military Trail, garden my corner lot, wear a mask in public (and a cape at night). I love to write & connect to writers and spiritual seekers. My book The Clue of the Red Thread is my latest of eleven, written in collaboration with Parker J Palmer and poet Rebecca Cecchini The Clue of the Red Thread: Discovering Fearlessness & Compassion in uncertain times came out in January, 2021 through Shanti Arts, Nine Rivers Imprint.

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I sent a poem of mine to a friend from my life in the Twin Cities. She is a talented poet, artist and author of a fiction. ​She sent me a reply asking if I was going to "send it out." And I wrote this poem in response:

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Welcome toJulie's BlogWorld into Word & Action (my new blog)​Read the past posts.

Julie's Blog
World into Word & Action

I sent a poem of mine to a friend from my life in the Twin Cities. She is a talented poet, artist and author of a fiction.

She sent me a reply asking if I was going to "send it out." And I wrote this poem in response:

Welcome to
Julie's Blog

World into Word & Action (my new blog)

Read the past posts.