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Nov 7
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 vo...

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Leiah Bowden

Oct 31
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 scri...

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Leiah Bowden

Oct 27
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
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
2 min

Joy and Leaving the Harbor

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

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Leiah Bowden

Jul 22
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 p...

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Leiah Bowden

May 12
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
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 c...

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Leiah Bowden

Apr 4
2 min

Amidah in the Time of Covid19

Let the unlimited force of All Being rush through your gates

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Leiah Bowden

Mar 26
3 min

What Would Micah Do?

What does "do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God" look like these days?

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Leiah Bowden

Mar 21
1 min

Tohu v' Bohu

These sheets of thunderous water cascading though your field of vision are not your tears, although your tears may be rushing from under ...

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Leiah Bowden

Oct 29, 2019
4 min

Bridge to Creator Force

You are human, and you are angel, and you are animal. You are Creator, and every other created being is Creator...

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Leiah Bowden

Sep 10, 2019
5 min

Lakshmi with my Mother's Face

In addition to loving my mother for all that she was to me as Mom, I now know her as Lakshmi, encouraging me to be generous with myself.

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Leiah Bowden

Aug 28, 2019
5 min

This is the womb: maelstrom.

Heartbreak gives birth to new worlds unimaginable beyond the womb. This is the womb: maelstrom. Drift, be blown, notice what is inescapable,

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