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Reflections on trauma and healing, memories held up to the light of the present moment, spiraling through this body – this spirit – this heart – this society – this earth – all interconnected to each other, interconnected to all that is your life.
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For the Love of Robin Hood and the Minotaur, Part One
From My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem (pgs. 10-12) “In...
Gail Seavey
Aug 29, 2022
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All Snakes Bite
“There is a mama snake,..a daddy snake…a brother snake…a sister snake….a baby snake….and all snakes bite.” – Children’s game My children...
Gail Seavey
Sep 11, 2021
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Snake Rescue
“Evolve or die.” – Lilly Tomlin My husband Jim used to say “I never change,” but of course he did. For instance, he was an angry young...
Gail Seavey
Jul 13, 2021
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Snake Handling 101
I was heavy with sadness on Mothers’ Day, grieving for my Mom. She died two years ago suffering from a dementia that had carved her down...
Gail Seavey
May 10, 2021
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Is There Such a Thing as a Perfect Community?
Utopia. Why is anyone interested in made-up visions of some perfect community? It’s hard enough living in this imperfect world without...
Gail Seavey
Mar 5, 2021
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Understanding Different Points
When I told my younger son’s partner that I was sad because Ruth Bader Ginsberg died, she asked who Ginsberg was. I was surprised, but I...
Gail Seavey
Feb 26, 2021
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Eyes and Inara’s Picture
As a child I was discouraged from acknowledging anything that disturbed the status quo such as sexism or racism, so what to do with all the
Gail Seavey
Feb 5, 2021
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Christmas Stories of Birth and Death
My niece asked for a Baby Dead doll for Christmas. Baby Alive dolls were the big thing that year, and J., who at 8 was already a master...
Gail Seavey
Dec 29, 2020
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Stories More Beautiful Than Answers
“And here is the serpent again, dragging himself out from his nest of darkness, his cave under the black rocks, his winter death.” – From...
Gail Seavey
Dec 17, 2020
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