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    midwifing "big mind," birthing insight
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Feb 15, 2018
    • 1 min

    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...
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    What are we here for?
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Feb 12, 2018
    • 4 min

    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...
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    Beginning in blessing
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Feb 8, 2018
    • 1 min

    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...
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    Biophilic cities
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Dec 21, 2017
    • 1 min

    Biophilic cities

    Trash dumpsters as planters that catch 2,000 gallons of runoff Micro-grids that are more resilient in emergencies--and maybe provide...
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    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Dec 18, 2017
    • 1 min

    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...
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    transformation on the go, because we care
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Dec 17, 2017
    • 1 min

    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...
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    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Dec 15, 2017
    • 1 min

    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...
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    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Dec 13, 2017
    • 1 min

    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...
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    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Dec 13, 2017
    • 2 min

    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...
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    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Dec 13, 2017
    • 1 min

    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...
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    refuge for whom and from what
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Dec 11, 2017
    • 1 min

    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...
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    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Nov 16, 2017
    • 1 min

    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,...
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    Biological nonseparation
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Nov 15, 2017
    • 1 min

    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...
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    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Nov 14, 2017
    • 1 min

    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. ...
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    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Nov 13, 2017
    • 1 min

    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...
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    Leunig & heavenly lightheartedness
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Oct 24, 2017
    • 1 min

    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...
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    walking deep time
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Oct 20, 2017
    • 1 min

    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...
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    rockin' science: origami of dimensions in empty space
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Aug 30, 2017
    • 1 min

    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...
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    Bacteria built rocks
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Aug 24, 2017
    • 1 min

    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...
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    Jaya on teachers
    Jaya Julienne Ashmore
    • Aug 17, 2017
    • 7 min

    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...
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