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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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Gail Seavey
Aug 29, 2022
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...
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Gail Seavey
Sep 11, 2021
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...
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Gail Seavey
Jul 13, 2021
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...
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Gail Seavey
May 9, 2021
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...
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Gail Seavey
Mar 5, 2021
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...
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Gail Seavey
Feb 26, 2021
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...
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Gail Seavey
Feb 5, 2021
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
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Gail Seavey
Dec 29, 2020
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...
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Gail Seavey
Dec 17, 2020
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...
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