https://www.soulmatterssharingcircle.com/uploads/9/4/5/0/94501751/sm_2022-05_sh_nuturing_beauty.pdf Sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom has written extensively about the construction of beauty. She argues that the way beauty is most often conceptualized in the dominant culture is as that which has aesthetic value that can be capitalized upon. And the way this plays out is that a few people profit off of a beauty … Continue reading Soulful Home: What Does it Mean to be a Nurturing Beauty?

https://www.soulmatterssharingcircle.com/uploads/9/4/5/0/94501751/sm_2022-may_sg_nurturing_beauty.pdf Beauty. We appreciate it. How could we not? We wonder at it. Get absorbed in it. Analyze it, if it’s got a frame around it. We make it. Grow it. Point at it. Collect it. Share it. Save it. But how often do we listen to it? How often do we ask, “What is … Continue reading Soul Matters: Welcome to Nurturing Beauty

https://www.soulmatterssharingcircle.com/uploads/9/4/5/0/94501751/sm_2022-04_sh_awakening.pdf Well, there you are! You made it! We’re here, together, at the interactive performance of humanity. What’s that? Is this a dream? Why yes, yes, it is. We see that you’re the spiritual guide of a young person. Wonderful! That’s an automatic all-inclusive pass to the ups, downs, and in-betweens of being human. (It’s … Continue reading Soulful Home April 2022

https://www.soulmatterssharingcircle.com/uploads/9/4/5/0/94501751/sm_2022-04_sg_awakening.pdf You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book (Lady Chatterley, for instance), or you take a trip, or you talk with [someone], and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating… Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or … Continue reading Soul Matters: Welcome to Awakening

PDF file here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Xii_Ohk6hX_JgVm6pQjUShU4_bfP5YlS/view?usp=sharing Do you remember this part of Amanda Gorman’s poem, from President Joe Biden’s inauguration?  For there is always light If only we’re brave enough to see it If only we’re brave enough to be it This quote resonated with many, many people in America, and indeed, all over the world. And … Continue reading Soulful Home What Does it Mean to be a Family Renewing Faith?

PDF File here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/148XxFZN2rSnLRoxye7l9YMAkqQLy4gEA/view?usp=sharing “Faith is homesickness. Faith is a lump in the throat.” Frederick Buechner “Once a reporter asked A.J. Muste, “Do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here alone at night in front of the White House with a candle?” Muste replied softly: … Continue reading Soul Matters: Welcome to Renewing Faith

January 4th- 7:30-8:30 pm (Zoom) Soulful Parenting Group Raising a Child: Living with Intention Join HERE   Our Parenting Group supports sharing realizations, challenges and hopes around the monthly Soulful Home theme with other supportive adults. This month’s questions revolve around Living with Intention. Pick a few questions that speak to you and come share … Continue reading Soulful Parenting Group Raising a Child: Living with Intention

Soul Matters-Soulful Home for Parents & Families Find Your Materials HERE https://www.soulmatterssharingcircle.com/uploads/9/4/5/0/94501751/sm_2022-01_sh_living_with_intention.pdf   What Does it Mean to be a Family Living with Intention? Several months ago, the journalist and author Malcolm Gladwell interviewed professor and author Ibram X. Kendi on the occasion of the release of Kendi’s new podcast, Be Antiracist. In the interview, … Continue reading Soul Matters-Soulful Home for Parents & Families

Soul Matters Adult Faith Development Find Your Soul Matters Packet HERE https://www.soulmatterssharingcircle.com/uploads/9/4/5/0/94501751/sm_2022-01_sg_living_with_intention.pdf   Welcome to Living with Intention “Here’s what I discovered. Intention is different from setting goals or resolutions in that it “pulls us into” who we truly are. Goals and resolutions “push us out” into future possibilities. To set intentions, we must listen … Continue reading Soul Matters Adult Faith Development

Find Your Materials Here: https://www.soulmatterssharingcircle.com/uploads/9/4/5/0/94501751/sm_2021-22_sh_oopening_to_joy.pdf What Does it Mean to be a Family Opening to Joy? We have to be here, at this time and place, to open to joy. Let me say that again, because it’s very likely that in reading that sentence, you went somewhere else–into your own thoughts, perhaps, or maybe evening … Continue reading Soulful Home for Parents & Families: What Does it Mean to be a Family Opening to Joy?