Spark My Muse

I'm thankful for my friends Noel Young and his correspondence and Michael Wright (from his thoughtful weekly newsletter Still Life) for introducing me to the gorgeous, spacious, and needed gems from three poets that I will share with you today: Steve Garnaas-Holmes, Mary Oliver, and Yahia Lababidi.

There is more music on this episode than normal. Don't rush through listening to this episode. It is only 10:00 minutes. Be patient with all of it and enjoy it. Use it as a way to put a pocket of space and grace in your day (Relaxing Celtic Music ★86 (Short) composed by Peder B. Helland and released by Soothing Relaxation. link)

Feature photo is by Gabrielle DeLay.

Watch and listen to the replay of poet Steven Garnaas-Holmes we he joined us and shared some of his poems during the Soul School LUNCH BREAK - Live Stream on October 2, 2020. https://www.crowdcast.io/e/soul-school---lunch/register

poet Steven Garnaas-Holmes shares his poetry with us LIVE (click to access replay)

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Today my guest is Cindy Bunch. She is a spiritual director and an associate publisher and director of editorial for Intervarsity Press for the Formatio line of books.

Cindy and I will be speaking about her book which is also the first selection in the Spark My Muse Book Club: Be Kind to Yourself: Releasing Frustrations and Embracing Joy

The extras today are free to everyone to check all the Book Club details and helpful links HERE: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41722959. (patreon.com/sparkmymuse | Episode 185)

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First Meeting:• WEDNESDAY, October 7, 2020• 7:30 pm EST

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Book Selection: Be Kind to Yourself: Releasing Frustrations and Embracing Joy (Illustrated) by Cindy Bunch

Author website: CindyBunch.com

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To find the fullness of being we must understand and practice the inhabiting of ourselves in the ordinary moments and in the chaotic ones. Insights from author  James Finley, and Dr Carolyn Baker will help us learn to persevere in times of tumult and stress and create more ways to strengthen the bonds of empathy and our own resilience. (photo credit: "underwater dream II" by Emiliano Grusovin is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

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Today are the stories, readings, and themes within the book The Long Night: Stories and Readings to Help you Through Depression by author Jessica Kantrowitz.

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Today, I share Derek Sivers' recipe for fixing a bad mood along with things I do to shorten or avert unnecessary low spirits. Though being sad or down is normal, I found Derek's tactics for changing mindset really clever. Enjoy!

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My conversation today is with Traci Rhoades about her first book Not All Who Wander (spiritually) Are Lost: A Story of Church

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If it feels like the world has gone mad, swimming in a soup of cognitive distortion won't help anything get better. What is cognitive distortion and how can a whole culture be in on it? That's today's episode. 

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My conversation today is with Ed Cyzewski about his vital book Reconnect: Spiritual Restoration for Digital Distraction. The NOVEMBER 2020 Spark My Muse Book Club pick.

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On Soul School today they are some insights from the 2004 essay by Paul Graham "What We Can't Say" (I'm reading excerpts). It has intellectual rigor and serves as an important reminder of the purpose of taboos in relation to power, how moral fashion works, and covers resisting our default setting of thinking what we are told to think. I don't embrace all of his examples nor have I landed in the same places as some of his conclusions, but his thesis is a worthy one, and we are wise to listen and be challenged by it.

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My conversation today is with Marlena Graves about her book "The Way Up is Down: Becoming Yourself by Forgetting Yourself". (Like me, Marlena is originally from Puerto Rico and grew up in Pennsylvania. Her Spanish is way better though.) She's a professor, an activist, has worked in ministry, and authored a number of books. Now working on her PhD. at Bowling Green University in Ohio. 

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