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Web of Life Meditation

2/23/2022

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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What is It?

12/15/2021

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Canada, 2017

"However it all works, I do think it is. Making myself go through my paragraphs and all my its, makes me come face to face with myself. Instead of deleting sentences, paragraphs and words, I ask myself for clarity to go deeper into myself. Where I seem to lose my storyline, I look for what I am afraid to say and keep writing instead of erasing. There always seems to be a core there, something of a bit of truth. When my critic comes out I turn him around and am learning to make him my advocate asking me for a little more truth to my storyline." –Rick, Writer,

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The Heroics of Writing

11/24/2021

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His business card slipped out from a pile of stationary as I decluttered my writing space. I set his card to the side. On my walk earlier that day, I thought of him and what a big part he played in my life. I decided to reach out to him. After all, he saved my life.

Writing is heroic because through the written word we carry ourselves and others across thresholds.

Writing is heroic in its vulnerabilities, which make us and the reader courageous. Writing is heroic through the legacies left behind when the writer is no longer with us.

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Author and counselor Julie Tallard Johnson

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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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:

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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

Read the past posts.