Grounding + Becoming
A Soulspace Wisdom Cross-Pollination
Listen for what is already in you, the seed within reaching toward sunlight
What I need for the terrain ahead seems to be mysteriously sprinkled around me days, weeks, months, or even years before I need it. There is an inexplicable resonance—a knowing that doesn’t conform to my linear timeline and context.
I recognize it.
Wisdom cannot be known with the mind alone; it animates within me. I am known, and I know.
And still, I forget.
Practices draw me back to the center. I return. I drink deeply. I remember.
There is spaciousness inside to keep going.
Follow what draws you.
Notice what stirs.
What is recognition like for you?
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An Artist Is Never Poor
A contemplative conversation through Babette’s Feast about art as gift, sacred abundance, service, and an offering that rekindles a community.
An Open Letter of Gratitude to Cynthia Bourgeault
Saying yes to accompanying my dying mother-in-law, "beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing." A letter of gratitude to Cynthia Bourgeault.
Where Time is Deep and Wide
Two friends in an openhearted conversation about time and presence, love and loss through the lens of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Little Connections begins: synchronicity, fathers, and becoming ourselves
Little Connections begins: two friends exploring the spiritual in everyday life. Episode one opens with Kung Fu Panda 3—synchronicity, fathers, grief, and becoming ourselves.
A Spacious Audio Meditation: Bruno Barnhart + “Home” by Sara Bareilles
A spacious audio meditation pairing Bruno Barnhart and Sara Bareilles’ “Home.” An invitation to presence and deep heart listening.
There Was No Contradiction in His Soul
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin bore in his being what others might consider contradictions. Though it was not easy, he tuned the instrument of his life to the bass note sounding within him.
Somewhere Along the Way
Somewhere along the way, I started relating to myself compassionately. And it shows.
What Strength It Takes To Bear A Slow Untangling
I walk in the shoes of others’ wisdom—lyrics my heart recognizes, but cannot presently find words for. One song at a time, circulation is being restored.
Can’t go under it. Can’t go over it. We’ve got to go through it.
My heart is magnetized to keep returning to the felt sense of these paradoxes, and so I do, over and over. In twenty-minute increments of silence, I climb into dissonance and breathe with it.
Visible Contradictions
It’s sometimes in the most unusual places that you actually discover the gift of the Beautiful. I always think that contradiction is what makes a person interesting. -John O’Donohue
Re-Member Yourself: A Note From Kirsten + A Poem About Holding Obscurity
When obscurity rises, and
you cannot see where to step next,
your gaze turns ever-so-slightly outward.
Oh, how humbling it is to be human!
Something Else: A Spiritual Director on Holding Obscurity & Disorientation
If you are in the thick of obscurity, holding inner tensions that cannot be resolved, or feeling disconnected from your deepest knowing. If you are disoriented as the sands of time flow through the hourglass at a dizzying pace and there is no rest in sight, please open to this possibility with me: a taste of something else may also be very nearby.
What Are You Nourishing?
Water meant to flow into the hose is dripping from the spigot, seeping into the ground underneath it. This well-irrigated little patch of Earth is incredibly fertile, but has not been cultivated with intention.
My loves, drink these words.
We’ll talk about finding our way, making it through what we thought would be the death of us, and how we wouldn’t give any of it back if we could. We will lament how quickly time passes, whisper regrets, and dare to speak of what our hearts really want.
Panning for Gold: Holding the Impossible
A tender reflection woven through EMT experience and the people who love them. A story about what lingers after the call, and the small ways we learn to hold pain and love together.
The Dynamism of Becoming: Notes from Real Life
Snapshots of granular moments of becoming as I work toward an aim to develop finer discrimination and attention.
Tuning in to the Beautiful, a Soulspace Newsletter
As we slow down to explore subtle inner experiences weaving through daily-ness, fleeting felt senses of a different quality shimmer.