i used to be___ and now i am ___
a communal poem from tonight’s closing ceremony of the 40 Day Journey to Remembering Soul and Spirit. with a heart full of gratitude. I...
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wildroots
remembering the truth of who we are
Amy Howton
Apr 9, 2022
there’s no going back
there’s no going back. these were the words spoken from a woman in circle reckoning with the reality of life. they came as she shared the...
Amy Howton
Mar 27, 2022
inclusion
during this season of lent, i’ve been hosting a 40 Day Journey to Remembering Soul and Spirit, based on my recently published book,...
Amy Howton
Mar 6, 2022
quanita
i met quanita three and a half years ago, in august 2019. i’d just returned from a meditation retreat where the red rocks in New Mexico...
Amy Howton
Feb 8, 2022
today’s medicine
in my story-weaving way, i found myself this morning following the thread of brigid. i lit a fire. and sat with her in the wayfinding of...
Amy Howton
Feb 1, 2022
threshold
today is imbolc (and uncommonly, the chinese lunar year). it feels timely. a mix of both new beginnings and threshold. a rite of passage....
Amy Howton
Jan 27, 2022
hibernation, grief, and the feminine
i’ve been deep in winter’s hibernation, practicing a different way of knowing, a different way of being. i’ve been moving slowly....
Amy Howton
Nov 23, 2021
expansion
for the first time since i wrote it in 2011, i read my dissertation recently. a solid decade stood between my now-self and my then-self;...
Amy Howton
Oct 28, 2021
lady luck
we had no gps, no service only screenshots of a google map, sheer determination, and wonder
Amy Howton
Oct 18, 2021
solidarity
a thread that’s running through life these days is solidarity. it’s got me wondering what it means, what it looks like, what it calls...
Amy Howton
Sep 22, 2021
equinox
as i pulled together the newest edition of wild roots: weaving stories of wonder and truth, i’ve been listening and looking for patterns...
Amy Howton
Sep 11, 2021
covid
eighteen months or so into this virus and i’m still wondering: what is our relationship with COVID? and what it might look like to be in...
Amy Howton
Aug 13, 2021
reality
yesterday, i had uninterrupted time with meg in the car. there was traffic. so, more time. funny how even after more than a year in...
Amy Howton
Aug 4, 2021
becky
becky; 8.4.21 sitting in the hot tub at the local rec center, the man next to me was chatting. as a woman climbed into the hot tub with...
Amy Howton
Aug 4, 2021
forgiveness
it’s no coincidence that 2/3 of jesus’ sermons were on forgiveness… …that bishop desmond tutu, in his life’s work around Truth and...
Amy Howton
Jul 10, 2021
this
may i remember this … the first rain drop, joined slowly by others painting the sidewalk, drop by drop first, gentle and sweet and then...
Amy Howton
Jun 19, 2021
descent
yesterday i listened to an interview with Robert MacFarlane, author of Underland. he spoke of the long history (6 million years!) of...
Amy Howton
Jun 2, 2021
pregnant
may: a month that signals new beginnings, new growth–a new season. may is potent, full, pregnant. the plan was to go camping for memorial...
Amy Howton
May 17, 2021
we cannot offer others what we do not have
in my current role with the Diocese of Southern Ohio serving as the Becoming Beloved Community Coordinator, i offered this reflection in...
Amy Howton
May 3, 2021
chaos + creation
last week was one of chaotic energy with opportunities to notice the power of embodied creation–what it feels like to be human and in...
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