This year, after seven years of faithfully sending out a free monthly newsletter to our Creative Spirit Circle community, I’ve opted to create a weekly newsletter instead. I feel like this is a way to be of greater service to the wider community, to offer a more meaningful level of focused, reliable contribution to the people who enjoy our work, and to be a means of a more direct dialog compared to the wide but shallow net of social media engagement. I’ve noticed that it has helped my “voice” in the newsletter to prepare a weekly edition instead of once a month and I’m finding that I keep my eyes open all week for little tidbits to include! Newsletter sign up is free and available here. In the meantime, I wanted to make a blog post about some of the recent reads and recent listens that I’ve been sharing in the weekly news:
Recent Reads
- The Way of Integrity by Martha Beck
- Raven Spell (novel about two witch sisters in Victorian-ish England + a detective)
- The Way of the Seabhean by Amantha Murphy
- Kitchen Witch by Sarah Robinson
- She of the Sea by Lucy Pearce
Recent Listens
- Podcast episode: How to Come Home to Yourself episode of We Can Do Hard Things
- The Big Lies & the Truth About Happiness with Dr. Laurie Santos (We Can Do Hard Things)
- Telling the Truth of Who We Are with Luvvie Ajayi Jones (We Can Do Hard Things)
- Create Out Loud Episode: How Sue Monk Kidd Listens to her Soul (And You Can Too)
- Create Out Loud Episode: Find And Hone Your Creative Voice w/ Lisa Congdon
- The Power of Words to Save Us (poet Marie Howe interviewed by Krista Tippett on On Being)
- Audio books (with my younger kids):
What have you been listening to or reading lately? Where do you long to go deeper with your learning and listening and loving?
