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Feb 18
2 min

What If There's a Test?

I am on the final day of my weekly three-day grand-daughter duty. We are sitting at her sweet white desk and she is showing me the...

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Leiah Bowden

Feb 15
4 min

Aleinu as Hongi

photo credits: http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2013/08/maori-elders-explain-meaning-of-hongi.html and https://www.artofliving.org/us-en/grat...

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Leiah Bowden

Feb 15
3 min

Making Laws for This Land

Created as the February 12, 2021 drash, or sermon, for Congregation Ner Shalom. The image refers both to the idea of a hungry mob,...

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Leiah Bowden

Dec 26, 2020
1 min

December Light

It's THAT month. December brings the darkness into which we dash as one hungry tribe, bearing all the light we can find. May the light of...

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Calling in the Angels - (Don't Bother, They're Here)

Leiah Bowden

Dec 20, 2020
2 min

Calling in the Angels - (Don't Bother, They're Here)

You can listen to this here I’m here to call in the angels, to invite all of us to call in the angels. But what I really want to say is...

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Leiah Bowden

Nov 7, 2020
4 min

Embrace and Deploy

ELECTION “I voted. I voted for the rainbow. I voted for the cry of a loon. I voted for my grandfather’s bones that feed beetles now. I...

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Leiah Bowden

Oct 31, 2020
2 min

And So Be Patient

In tonight's insightful commentary during services at Congregation Ner Shalom I heard something I wanted to think more about, and I...

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Leiah Bowden

Oct 27, 2020
3 min

A Time to Claim Our Power

You are here to build and to witness. To reflect and cast forth the Divine blueprint alive in you.

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Leiah Bowden

Oct 19, 2020
4 min

The Gift of the Drum

I am human. My birthright spans the cosmos and I can explore it at will.

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Leiah Bowden

Aug 17, 2020
2 min

Joy and Leaving the Harbor

"It is never easy to relinquish the safe harbor.”

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Leiah Bowden

Jul 22, 2020
3 min

Cherub

How absolutely astounding, she thought. Being an artist is confounding, and so lovely. Look what I’ve done, she thought,

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Amidah Gift July 10, after chanting “'Peace Like a River”

Leiah Bowden

Jul 13, 2020
1 min

Amidah Gift July 10, after chanting “'Peace Like a River”

This peace you sing for is always around you, forms the core of your being.

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Leiah Bowden

Jul 7, 2020
1 min

Amidah Gift July 3: Find Me Alone

Know that I am waiting for you as I always wait for you to be my empty vessel.

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Leiah Bowden

Jul 2, 2020
3 min

My First Angel

We need to be unabashed about who we are. Or if you prefer, Who We are. Right now.

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Leiah Bowden

Jun 26, 2020
2 min

And Then Everything Changed

the ravaging of this creek I learned to love as I walked for my health and joy is what COVID has done, destroying what was.

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Leiah Bowden

Jun 22, 2020
1 min

Or So I Thought: Amidah Gift June 6

This flow of words, breadcrumbs on a dark path have become a pattern of hopes under which I have placed the fabric of my days during this...

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Hoping for Breath: Amidah Gift June 19, 2020

Leiah Bowden

Jun 20, 2020
1 min

Hoping for Breath: Amidah Gift June 19, 2020

I pray for the holding open of the rock at the edge of hope. I pray for the light never to go out. I pray for my eyes never to close. I...

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Leiah Bowden

May 12, 2020
3 min

Giving it Away: Relief for My '80s Self

Today I completed my project, and I can see my 80s self sinking back into her comfy chair with relief.

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What Elephant Tried to Teach Us Before Corona Took the Lead

Leiah Bowden

May 12, 2020
3 min

What Elephant Tried to Teach Us Before Corona Took the Lead

When I first connected with the elephant, Pelusa, before her scheduled rescue by the Global Sanctuary for Elephants, I was moved to the...

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Leiah Bowden

Apr 4, 2020
2 min

Amidah in the Time of Covid19

Let the unlimited force of All Being rush through your gates

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