wholeness
back in the day, when i worked for a social innovation firm focused on community-centered design, i found it so curious that in order to...
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wildroots
remembering the truth of who we are
Amy Howton
- Apr 22, 2021
LOVE THE EARTH
by meg (11 years old) for earth day the earth weighted down and hurting with our trash Stop! We need to stop killing animals and...
Amy Howton
- Apr 16, 2021
re-source
a week ago i slipped away for a few quiet days in nature with my family. we found a new-to-us-place tucked in between huge stone...
Amy Howton
- Mar 26, 2021
witness
years ago, i was in a work meeting and literally told to be silent while a decision about a service i ran was communicated to the rest of...
Amy Howton
- Mar 23, 2021
do as the grain of wheat; as the earth
this was shared as a sermon (my first!) on 3.21.21 for the Church of the Good Shepherd; Athens, OH. the Gospel reading that inspired it...
Amy Howton
- Mar 14, 2021
release
yesterday i signed a Release Agreement on the land contract. in other words, there is an acknowledgement that the contract we entered is...
Amy Howton
- Mar 4, 2021
stand and kneel
a few weeks back, i heard Bishop Michael Curry raise a question that has stayed with me: “how do i both stand and kneel at the same time,...
Amy Howton
- Mar 1, 2021
lessons from the school of forgiveness
i heard someone once say that earth is the school of forgiveness. today, it is raining–a divine soundtrack as i sit some lessons learned....
Amy Howton
- Feb 21, 2021
obedience and rage
i’ve never liked the idea of obedience. always feeling it as laced with patriarchy and dominance. yeah…nope. and…i’d say that i’m...
Amy Howton
- Feb 9, 2021
wildness
i woke this morning to snow. with childlike wonder, i scurried around the house, opening all the curtains and gasping each time the...
Amy Howton
- Jan 21, 2021
proclaiming the dream
yesterday: inauguration. artists and poets and leaders boldly telling the truth of who we are as a growing-up nation. “unfinished”, in...
Amy Howton
- Jan 16, 2021
safety
“The world is selling safety all the time. By marketing fear.” –Peter Block at what cost do we choose safety? safety. our world tells us...
Amy Howton
- Jan 15, 2021
creation
“Creation is the dwelling place of God.”—J.P.Newell when i live as art, with attention to the flow and in-betweenness in connection with...
Amy Howton
- Jan 13, 2021
hell yeah, laughter
laughter. the best medicine. i’ve long believed in this. back in the day, as a crisis counselor working with survivors of sexual and...
Amy Howton
- Jan 12, 2021
softening
the elder from South Africa looked at us snd wept out of rage, she said. and then turning to my dark-skinned sister the rage melted into...
Amy Howton
- Jan 9, 2021
the land’s workin’ me
i awoke this morning and got that today was a day of solitude. a day of carefully turning inward. what a week. on Epiphany, an attempted...
Amy Howton
- Jan 5, 2021
mirror
in college, i asked a boy i loved, “what do you see when you look in my eyes?” “me”, he replied. it was the most loving and hurtful...
Amy Howton
- Dec 28, 2020
christmas 2020
Last week, my dad stopped by unexpectedly to drop off Christmas gifts, masked. As he cracked open the door and hollered into our home...
Amy Howton
- Dec 18, 2020
mary, divine mother
© Magdalena Walulik mary has been always been a presence in my life. born at st mary’s hospital, brought up in st. mary’s church,...
Amy Howton
- Dec 17, 2020
in the weaving of life’s story
The threads are carefully Chosen Revealed Claimed and reclaimed As is the art of weaving Chosen Revealed Claimed and reclaimed The...
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