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Out of nowhere, yes
All night I could not sleep because of the moonlight on my bed. I kept on hearing a voice calling: Out of Nowhere, Nothing answered...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Mar 25, 20191 min read
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Wending a way through
"Curls of Love and Interest," drawing by Jaya Wendell Berry grappling with ideas about food, sexuality, gender, community... decades ago...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Feb 20, 20191 min read
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"When nature speaks, what does it want to say?"
"A million invisible helping hands" Drawing by Jaya From Bilal Qureshi's story on National Public Radio in the US, about Guerra and...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Feb 19, 20191 min read
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Is there a gap between inner and outer change?
Is it self-indulgent to commit to so-called inner work? Is it avoidance if we devote ourselves to so-called outer work? (Drawing by...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Feb 14, 20192 min read
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Recovering our "original instructions"
"Community" Drawing by Jaya, February 2019 From the wonderful interview with Joanna Macy on the online "Power of Community" summit on...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Feb 11, 20191 min read
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The mind that comes to rest is tended In some ways that it cannot intend
Wendell Berry's words give us an understanding of why it is so hard to describe meditation ... "The mind that comes to rest is tended ...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Nov 26, 20181 min read
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midwifing "big mind," birthing insight
"Many African-American midwives in rural southeastern US of the 20th-century were proud that they could'“plow like men, and pick cotton...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Feb 15, 20181 min read
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Biophilic cities
Trash dumpsters as planters that catch 2,000 gallons of runoff Micro-grids that are more resilient in emergencies--and maybe provide...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Dec 21, 20171 min read
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walking deep time
The last ice age lands 13 millimeters back...if the history of our earth is laid out along 100 meters. 1/5th of a millimeter "ago" we...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Oct 20, 20171 min read
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