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Fire and Faith: A Sermon about the Valley Fire

I am writing this as an evacuee from the Valley Fire. This is a draft, so forgive the typos that I’m sure will be here…I’ll get to them later. I will share this with Galilee Lutheran Church on the third Sunday of October, so would appreciate any feedback you might give. It’s been a long week. At friends in Santa Rosa, CA. My husband and I were fortunate. Both of our houses survived but we…

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#God in or not in the world #Valley Fire

The Right Amount of Passion: A Short Story by Kathryn Glass

One of the 100 word stories I was writing with collage this spring grew. I actually think now that they were 100 word beginnings. I’ve sent this off, and had a very nice rejection from one of the places today. This is not an action driven story, but a character driven one. And that’s what I want it to be. Not that I won’t keep working on it from time to time. It could expand. Maybe. I know…

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#acceptance #alternate reality #androgyny #literary fiction #science fiction #short story

Faithing

anitamathias.com I wasn’t supposed to preach this until next week, but with the Rocky Fire burning and Highway 20 closed, our priest, Mother Delia, could not make it to church Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, and be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you. I spent some…

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#11th Sunday after Pentecost #christianity #Episcopal homilies #Episcopal Sermons #Gospel of John #manna in the wilderness #Proper 14 #Prophet Elijah #religion #truly seeing

The Scent of Violets

Posting this in hopes the woman from Berkeley I met last night at The Journey Center finds it! The Scent of Violets My palms form a tent over distant cities as I pray and I want violets to rain down, and to smell healing oils instead of sulfur, and see angels pour the waters of peace from their place of mythic origin, no angels on backs of apocalyptic horses, no plagues, nor rumors of war, no…

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The Scent of Violets

Reblogging this poems in hopes that the woman I met last night from Berkeley finds it!

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Heron’s Path, Day 1, Free August 1-5, Amazon Kindle Realizing too late my "countdown" is probably confusing. But anyway, tomorrow the free promotion for HERON'S PATH begins for five days.

#free kindle book #herons #myths and culture #women&039;s fiction #young-adult fantasy fiction

Review of In the Land of the Grasshopper Song: Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country 1908-1909

This book was a major inspiration for my writing Heron’s Path. This is a review I wrote in 2013.

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Review of In the Land of the Grasshopper Song: Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country 1908-1909

In the Land of the Grasshopper Song is, hands down, my favorite book, and I have often wished the authors had written more. I found it in a bookstore in Eureka over twenty years ago on a trip that took me through the Klamath River area. At that time I was beginning work on a novel. The power, quiet wisdom, and tolerance of In the Land of the Grasshopper Song inspired my manuscript and, I believe,…

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#alethea eason #heron&039;s path #In the Land of the Grasshopper Song #Indian Field Matrons #Karuk #Karuk culture #Klamath River #northern california #spectacle mpg #United States Department of the Interior #women&039;s history

When Old Woman Got Tired

I wrote several “myths” from the Nanchuti culture in HERON’S PATH. This one I wrote at a later date, after HERON’S PATH had been published. A long time ago, Old Woman of the River got very tired. She was tired of always rushing her children down the river, all the fish and all the silt, tree branches and pieces of gold. She decided to stop. Her water froze, the froth of the rapids became little…

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#bird myths #books #fantasy novel #forest cultures

Heron's Path, Day 3, Free August 1st-5th, Amazon Kindle Select

HERON’S PATH is the kind of fiction entire generations once grew up on when young people simply read wonderful, immortal literature that spoke to their hearts, and it wasn’t labeled YA, MG or adult. HERON’S PATH is for the soul in us all–regardless of age–that needs to be reminded regularly that the universe is full of mystery, meaning, courage and love. –Bruce McAllister, The Village Sang to the…

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#books #creating a culture #fantasy novel #free kindle book #indigenous groups #novels about horses #women&039;s fiction #young-adult novel

Heron's Path Day 4 Free August 1st - August 5th, Amazon Kindle Select HERON’S PATH is a beautiful read. I was swept away by Alethea Eason’s rich and beautiful evocations of the natural world.

Heron's Path Day 5, Free August 1st-5th, Amazon Kindle Select

Heron’s Path Day 5, Free August 1st-5th, Amazon Kindle Select

Celeste, the ethereal sister, is deluded by the evil wei-ni-la, dark spirits that inhabit the forest who do not want the Old Ones to return to the home because it will be the end of their existence if the old “magic” of the forest leaves. We found her huddled like a small rabbit next to a fallen tree, her clothes flung over branches and ferns, her pale body shimmering in the moonlight. Before…

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#Fantasy #free kindle book #novel #women&039;s fiction #young-adult

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HERON'S PATH Countdown Day 6, Free August 1st-5th, Amazon Kindle Select

A new imagining of native myths offers a heartwarming tale of two sisters with different destinies. -Michael Jung, Suite101 On a hot day in September I found Celeste’s clothes scattered all over the barn, one shoe upside down next to Papa’s forge and the other inside a milking pail. Her yellow dress hung from a ladder like a bird suspended in midair. I pulled the dress down by its hem and three…

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#alternative history #fantasy novel #free kindle book #women&039;s fiction #young-adult novel

Heron's Path Countdown Day 7 Free August 1-5th Amazon Kindle Select

Heron’s Path Countdown Day 7 Free August 1-5th Amazon Kindle Select

“A new imagining of native myths offers a heartwarming tale of two sisters and different destinies.”My young-adult novel fantasy HERON’S PATH will be free on Amazon Kindle Select August 1st-5th. Spectacle PMG, its publisher, has gone out of business, so I’m offering the promotion to announce its new manifestation in the world. I thought I’d share parts of the novel over the next few days, and…

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#alternative history #Fantasy #free kindle book #native cultures #novel #women&039;s fiction #young-adult

I haven’t been on WordPress for awhile…life taking me to other places. I’ve focused lately on a short story, and my writing time has been going to that. But I’ve painted too! I do this for my fun, stress release, and have no pretensions that I have much, if any, “skill”. It’s all just process for me and working with color. Flurry Koi Pond Mother Earth Madonna

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#acrylic painting #art #intuitive painting

The Herod in All of Us

The king was greatly grieved; yet out of regard for his oaths and for the guests, he did not want to refuse her. In the name of God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirt. Amen A person I often identify with in the Gospels is the man who said, “I do believe; help my unbelief,” after asking Jesus to heal his son with the unclean spirit. I so often say the same thing to God, and I find that an…

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#christianity #episcopal #Episcopal homilies #the death of John the Baptist

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