shea in the catskills

shea in the catskills

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Mar
paper collage artwork with a text background, flowers and circles and a swimmer wearing a pink swimsuit in the foreground and the words 9 of Pentacles

March 2025: feeling secure

So much was closing in about the women who sat knitting, knitting, that they their very selves were closing in
7 min read
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Feb
3 devil tarot cards against a wood background

February 2025: entering our villain era

Consider that the climate safe haven you may be looking for is "true multi-racial democracy that gets money out
7 min read
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Jan
two tarot cards on a wood background

January 2025: trusting our experience

Listen to this month’s offering as a podcast Dear Friends, Here in the Catskills, we’ve had some snow,
10 min read
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Dec
an abstract painting with a white finger shape pointing down with what looks like starry black in the center, against a gauzy teal ground

December 2024: reorienting

To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair—despair is a tool of your enemies.
10 min read
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Nov
death tarot card showing a crying veiled woman with big arms wrapped around her robe through which several sideways faces appear

November 2024: major arcana 13

We are living through a remarkable moment of depravity that will mark each and every one of us for the
7 min read
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Oct
a brown lighthouse is struck by an explosive bolt of lighting, two figures falling in mid-air above a roiling green sea

October 2024: on being not-okay

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, —he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have
10 min read
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Sep
a white person walking in profile with a big hiking backpack, hiking boots and one artificial leg next to a turtle sculpture

September 2024: the power of consistency

U.S. civilian memory is the safest place for the empire’s crimes —Darius Simpson Listen to this month’s
6 min read
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Aug
emperor tarot card with a single red poppy flower towering above rows of poppies

August 2024: can you join us?

I don't believe that you need to heal grief. Grief itself is the healing. Grief is the medicine.
8 min read
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Jul
a strength tarot card showing a snake threading its body through the holes of a pelvis with two blooming roses

July 2024: a mid-year check-in

Joy is an experience of love; grief is an expression of love, and hope is an action of love. —Charlie
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Jun
a bird with a beaded necklace in its beak perches on the edge of a nest with blue eggs and trinkets and knives sticking out of it

June 2024: our thoughts + words are spells

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
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