Christina Clark

Perfectionism Is Gumming Up My Keyboard — Firebird Rise What an old tattoo is revealing to me about shame, "getting it right", fear and growth.

I recently decided to revisit and redesign an old tattoo, and am documenting in my blog how the process is teaching me about death, rebirth, inconvenient truths, and what meaningful growth & change often requires.

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Voters got what they asked for, and things are changing alright. But is it towards a world that we actually want to live in?

Creating pain, chaos and fear is not leadership. In virtually every environment I’ve ever worked, we called that incompetence.

I’m grateful for the Senator and proud that she is my elected representative. Making my calls daily, which include liberal appreciation and support to her and her staff each and every time. And also - we are facing a coup. I believe it’s reasonable in the face of that to ask “what else can we do?”

Senator, with respect there had to be more to say than “what the Republicans are doing is awful”. So many of us KNOW this. What we need is inspiring leadership, a bold vision, and an offensive strategy. What can we DO? How can we get more everyday Americans on board to act on their own behalf?

Send a message to giant companies ripping us off. On Feb. 28, don't shop online, in big box stores, no Amazon, no Walmart, no Best Buy, fast food nor gas. Just one day will send a powerful message. Think they'll miss our DEI dollars? Don't spend. Then let them know why.

YouTube video by Jessica Craven It’s time to decide. Are we going to be an example? Or are we going to be a warning? #politics

It’s time to decide, America. Are we going to be an example? Or are we going to be a warning?

New ink in homage to pilgrimage, the ancestors, and walking the spiral path.

Keep up the good work, Senator.

We should not be cutting health care for working families to deliver massive tax breaks for billionaires.

Repost if you agree.

Grind it to a halt, Senator.

Senator Says They Are Getting ‘1,600 Calls a Minute’ Amid Trump-Musk Chaos A Republican senator has revealed that the Senate is being slammed with “1,600 calls a minute” rather than the typical 40 amid the chaos of Donald Trump’s first three weeks in office. The onslaught ha...

We are melting phone lines. GOP senator Lisa Murkowski admits call volume to Congress is 40 times above normal.

The Senate will vote on Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination this week, and we could also see votes on Robert Kennedy Jr. & Kash Patel. Keep calling your senators: www.nixthenoms.com?source=bluesky

Washingon friends: did you know Senator Cantwell voted to confirm four of Trump’s nominees?

If this doesn’t sit right with you, call her office.
(202) 224-3441

Make no assumptions. Watch the votes. Speak up when their words and actions are out of alignment.

Taking a much needed breather from the doom scrolling to source joy. Remembering what’s worth fighting for.

Find the wonder, my friends. Full hearts are formidable warriors.

And yes, I’ve been there too. Lingering in the twisty caverns of my own head. Missing opportunities to be fully awake and alive.

Am actively course correcting to center lived experience and relating with other humans IRL over virtual reality. I stumble in this alot. It’s an ongoing process. ❤️

My god what a view. AND… it squeezed my heart to be the only person on deck drinking the scene in. On a ferry filled to capacity, 95% of passengers remained below deck the entire time. In the car cave, relating with their phones.

Almost nobody SAW THIS.

This ain’t how we were meant to live.

Rosary practice observation: start really talking to the Mother on the regular, and she starts talkin’ back. On my way home just now I discovered the PNW Amma center… after driving past here how many times? And get this: weekly Satsang begins in 5 minutes. No kiddin. Needless to say, I’ll be there.

Sanity break.

For example, I swapped out the Catholic “Our Father” prayer beads for a Buddhist metta prayer

The tradition has Mary mysteries and prayers associated with each bead, but you can modify in any way that’s resonant. I’ve felt into it and made the prayers my own. The beauty is it’s meditative in a circular rather than linear fashion. Nothing to “master”, just show up in devotion to the Mother. ❤️

3 days in and damn if this rosary practice isn’t cracking me wide open. Feels, fears, hopes & dreams for the world as what’s tender and personal becomes universal. Many faces of the Mother showing up: Mary, Amma, Brigid, Boann, Kwan Yin, Kali, Epona. And of course, she who holds the wheel of time.

C’mon in sis, the water’s warm!

(Now you can tell her there’s an actual conversation happening about her over here, and to find out what we’re saying she’ll just have to log on. 😉)

Yep. It’s all about the ancient tradition of prayer beads as a form of devotion and supplication to the Mother (pre-Christian, as well as current use in connection to Mary).

Same same. When I was in Belfast, someone I was in ceremony with came up to me and just handed me the book. We had not spoken up to that point, she said “I feel like you need to read this.” Still took me five more months and a zillion Mary encounters before I cracked it open tho. Slow learner 🤣

Dude, they called me and now I Can’t Stop Going. 🤣

Respect to the funky old gods of land and place - Hag of Beara stone, Coulagh Bay Ireland

Whisper of a dream of An Cailleach had me up well before dawn, on my knees and praying my face off. Irish goddess of winter doesn’t play.

Love to my kin in Ireland as you weather the storm. Kindness here in America as we weather ours. Hands on heart. One breath, then another.

In the 1930s, Victor Klemperer and others made the decision to bear witness, knowing that one day history would look in horror at what the Nazis were doing. Bearing witness today is vital. Eyes wide open as one govt agency after next is MAGAfied. Eyes wide open at what is happening in our names.

Been adding some new tools to my mystical arsenal - calling in the Divine Mother by all her myriad names.

Devotion. Dedication. Action. Wash-rinse-repeat

Joining the great migration. Here’s hoping the winds are fairer and the compass stays true along this here bluesky horizon.