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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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What are we here for?
I don't always like to use this kind of question--we don't need to earn life by being useful. So many people have a nagging feeling that...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Feb 12, 20184 min read
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Beginning in blessing
Painting by Jaya Julienne Ashmore Though your destination is not yet clear, You can trust the promise of this opening, Unfurl yourself...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Feb 8, 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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Power of okayness
Knowing we are okay, even in all our weirdness and tenderness, can give rise to the joy and confidence that makes our spiritual path come...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Dec 18, 20171 min read
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transformation on the go, because we care
How important the ongoing transformations--transformation on the go, not after we get to that perfect starting place first--embedded in...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Dec 17, 20171 min read
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Freedom from assumptions
Interesting to notice how much and how long we can ignore hints about surprising truths. A wealthy Viking warrior--with arms stronger...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Dec 15, 20171 min read
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Decolonizing the mind through native tongue
Immersion is the one way for language to sustain itself across generations, and revitalizing the indigenous language is part of...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Dec 13, 20171 min read
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Standing in our place, we need each other
Allowing our actual needs to clarify our places of nourishment--feeding and being fed upon, native and maker in one of the many wonderful...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Dec 13, 20172 min read
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Person-sized penguins--life is cool.
Penguins as tall as a man of medium height, for millions of years, life thriving on earth after the extinction of dinosaurs. 20 million...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Dec 13, 20171 min read
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refuge for whom and from what
"'...dharma has become beholden to commodification, viewing it as inescapable and de rigueur.'" And a path that "'prepares us for the...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Dec 11, 20171 min read
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psychological immunity (when there's no escape)
Synthetic happiness sounds fake, right? We are happiness-makers, not creatures who have to manipulate the world --get money, fame,...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Nov 16, 20171 min read
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Biological nonseparation
In her 80s, Goodall travels internationally to let us know we are not the only creatures who feel emotions, plan, recognize ourselves in...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Nov 15, 20171 min read
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Bronze Age women travelers
I love when research helps crack open old assumptions. I have a friend who applauds whenever a lame concept gets broken or dispelled. ...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Nov 14, 20171 min read
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when I move towards the things I care most about, I am the most free I have ever been
"My emotional and mental well being depends on my commitment to what I care for most. It depends on being resilient, which is not the...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Nov 13, 20171 min read
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Leunig & heavenly lightheartedness
Michael Leunig is a cartoonist for a major newspaper...and he uses the word God often accompanied by a simple drawing of a duck. You have...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Oct 24, 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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rockin' science: origami of dimensions in empty space
Martin Rees with Krista Tippett on "...deeper mystery,... ... related to the nature of space itself. There’s evidence, ... in the last 10...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Aug 30, 20171 min read
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Bacteria built rocks
" In the story of life on earth, single-celled, microscopic organisms have built our planet in spectacular landscapes such as the white...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Aug 24, 20171 min read
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Jaya on teachers
from the Open Dharma newsletter, December 2016 On retreat sometimes people ask to hear “my story,” how it has been and how it is for me...

Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Aug 17, 20177 min read
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