Living with Contradiction: Fall Equinox, Capitalism and Healing the Dead
(Fall Equinox '21 newsletter) Last week, I read adrienne marie brown's "We will not cancel us." I highly recommend the book as well as...
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Julia & Jonathan
- Jul 18, 2022
Lessons from the Trail: The Practice of Pilgrimage
In April '22, Heartward Sanctuary co-founders Julia Hartsell and Jonathan Edwards went on pilgrimage to the valley of Rieti, the...
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Julia & Jonathan
- Jun 22, 2022
Becoming what we love
As we enjoyed our first wild blackberry feast on the Solstice, I smiled remembering how our beloved Pablo loved eating them with me,...
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Julia & Jonathan
- Jan 21, 2022
Reflections on Dying: Part 1
By Julia Hartsell Back in April, I got the J & J shot. Two days later, they pulled this particular vaccine because of potential blood...
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Julia & Jonathan
- Jan 19, 2022
Grief Tending: The start of my apprenticeship with grief
By Julia Hartsell When I was five, my first cousin Kimberly died. She was just a few weeks old. While I didn't have much time to bond...
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Julia & Jonathan
- Jan 19, 2022
Body Disposition: Part 1
By Julia Hartsell In death planning talk, body disposition refers to what people choose to do with their bodies after death. In recent...
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Julia & Jonathan
- Oct 19, 2021
Relating with the Dead
As Jaroslav Róna's sculpture above suggests, having the ancestors at our backs can be quite a weight to bare. Acknowledge them or not,...
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Julia & Jonathan
- Sep 22, 2021
Reflections on The Flowjo's Death (Summer Newsletter)
Death is not an aberration. Death is a sacred passage and the ultimate destination of every life. It is with sadness, gratitude and...
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Julia & Jonathan
- Sep 22, 2021
The Flowjo Obituary & Link to Community Memory Board
The Flowjo Obituary Conceived February 14, 2010 Born March 2011 Death July 2021 The Flowjo provided a sanctuary for movers, artists and...
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Julia & Jonathan
- Sep 15, 2021
Turning the Wheel ~ Photographic Reflections on a Year of Pandemic Ritual
Holy Days at Heartward Sanctuary We are dancers in an ancient, cyclical, life-generating choreography of earth and sun. Our bodies are an...
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Julia & Jonathan
- Sep 23, 2020
Adapt or Die: Dancing with COVID
“Ritual dances provide a religious experience that seems more satisfying and convincing than any other...It is with their muscles that...
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Julia & Jonathan
- Sep 13, 2020
End Times Beginning: A Meditation on Apocalypse
Some seeds germinate only after being scorched by fire.
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Julia & Jonathan
- Aug 6, 2020
Permaculture and Learning to Listen to the Land
As of May, we’ve become stewards of 36 acres of traditional Shakori-Saponi lands in Silk Hope, NC (Haw River watershed). Having a home...
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Julia & Jonathan
- Mar 21, 2020
Slipping into Sacred Time
In this time of heart-wrenching tensions, slowing down may seem nearly impossible. Let us honor this act, however, as vital and radical.
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Julia & Jonathan
- Mar 13, 2020
What if the Virus is the Medicine?
By Jonathan Hadas Edwards & Julia Hartsell The emerging pandemic is already a watershed of the early 21st century: things won’t ever be...
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