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Beloved Friends & Family,
Welcome home to high summer. With a broken climate and social structures in flames, things may be feeling smoky in your life. I am with you, endeavoring to breathe into my body, reclaim the present moment, notice the raven family congregating in the poplar tree across the acequia, the smell of black beans with garlic and oregano simmering on the stove when I walk back into the house. And then, remembering what’s what, I step back into action to see what small thing I might do to help alleviate suffering. Tikkun Olam. We all have what is needed to mend the world.
If you need a little drink of water on your way, please consider joining me for any of my swiftly upcoming Wild Mercy gatherings: 1 online, 1 in person.
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Mirabai Starr writes creative non-fiction and contemporary translations of sacred literature. She taught Philosophy and World Religions at the University of New Mexico-Taos for 20 years and now teaches and speaks internationally on contemplative practice and inter-spiritual dialog. A certified bereavement counselor, Mirabai helps mourners harness the transformational power of loss. She has received critical acclaim for her revolutionary new translations of the mystics, John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila and Julian of Norwich. She is the award-winning author of GOD OF LOVE: A Guide to the Heart of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, CARAVAN OF NO DESPAIR: A Memoir of Loss and Transformation, and Mother of God Similar to Fire, a collaboration with iconographer, William Hart McNichols. Her latest book, WILD MERCY: Living the Fierce & Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics, is forthcoming Spring 2019. She lives with her extended family in the mountains of northern New Mexico.