Tending Our Souls Collection, Part One
Sharing Art + Spacious Offerings for Being and Becoming
God bless our brave little hearts and our inherent limitations, and our short-sighted plans, and our collusion.
-The Indigo Girls in “Look Long”
Finding New Ways to Share Good Things
Artists and spiritual accompany-ers I know are creating beautiful things and spacious, nourishing offerings.
As social media is changing, algorithms are making it difficult to get the word out about what we are creating. I want to spread the word about cool things that are available to support us in this vital work of tending our souls.
Thank you for letting me accompany you this year! I’m grateful to be connected.
If you know someone who may enjoy my work, will you please share it? Thank you!
Love, Kirsten
Spiritual Accompaniment with Court VonLindern
I’m excited to introduce you to Camp Counselor Court. Court offers “spiritual accompaniment for wonderers and wanderers of the margins.”
Here are some blog posts to acquaint you with their voice:
I Know What the Voice of G*d Sounds Like.
So…what’s the why of spiritual accompaniment?
In this climate, Court’s work is so needed. I’m heartened by their willingness to share what they know and what they see from where they are.
Please consider sharing and supporting Court’s work financially, if you have the means, to make it possible for Court to give themselves fully to the work they are called to, and to make spiritual care accessible.
What I’m Reading + Listening To Lately:
In a world that often dismisses the extraordinary as mere fantasy, The Telepathy Tapes dares to explore the profound abilities of non-speakers with autism—individuals who have long been misunderstood and underestimated. These silent communicators possess gifts that defy conventional understanding, from telepathy to otherworldly perceptions, challenging the limits of what we believe to be real. For years, their parents and teachers have quietly witnessed these remarkable abilities, knowing that the time to share their truth would eventually come. But now, as the evidence mounts, the time has come to reveal what has been hidden in plain sight.
I visited the ground last week where Bruno Barnhart wrote these books. He didn’t write his first book until he was in his 60’s, which I really dig.
I sat by Bruno’s grave — even more meaningful to me after reading what another monk had to say about him:
“Some people say Bruno was stuck in his head. No, his thoughts, like no one else I’ve ever known, became flames that leapt out of his head… Now he will be buried like a seed — no, better, like a flame — into the Earth, and the whole graveyard will glow from it.”
A peak into Bruno’s experience::
“The Jesus we encounter is a light at the center of the world, a fire at the world’s edge. He moves beneath the images of himself as an ultimate center of energy. I am always losing him and finding him again, migrating from one image, one station, to another on the journey. He awakens that which lies at the core of my being; the series of Jesus’ healings in the gospels are the story of the gradual raising of the nascent person that I am to life and consciousness, to freedom and fullness. The knowledge of Jesus Christ is a unitive knowledge: it is the luminosity of my own true and eternal being…in him I possess the secret knowledge of this unity and this dynamism, which is history. I cannot capture in words the gravitational pull of this solar Christ moving in the depths of my Being.”
NOTE: These images are linked to Amazon. When purchased there, I receive a tiny percentage of the purchase price to support my work. You can also purchase these from the bookstore at New Camaldoli Hermitage, where Bruno lived, and I encourage that.
