Botanical Garden Iris (c) Ellen Hudson July 25, 2025 As of this particular date, July 25, 2025, 47,000 people per month are being deported by the Trump Administration (re: Rep. Dale Strong/Alabama)while 1,000 are caged in Alligator Alcatraz, an inhumane concentration camp in the swamplands of Florida. So much for due process. Our own presidentContinueContinue reading “Resistance and Resilience: Photography”
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Resistance and Resilience: Words
July 14, 2025 Recently, a follower of this blog sent me an essay written by Phyllis Cole-Dai (The Raft on Substack) who wrote: “According to The New York Times, the current US administration has now restricted or outright banned the use of hundreds of words and phrases in government documents ranging from agency memos toContinueContinue reading “Resistance and Resilience: Words”
Resistance and Resilience: Love
June 2, 2025 Art in any form is resistance. This blog is an invitation to submit any works of art that speak to resistance against the injustices of these current times and to resilience that keeps us grounded in hope, truth, and love. Former submissions can be found here under “Writings” : https://spirit-reflections.org/. Today’s submissionContinueContinue reading “Resistance and Resilience: Love”
Resistance and Resilience: Grow
(c) Photo by Teresa Culbert May 30, 2025 As a poet and novelist, I’m fortunate to meet regularly with a group of diverse creatives: a poet/photographer, a poet/photographer/musician, a prose writer/poet, a watercolor artist, and a quilter. Most of us have never met personally, our group a blessing that grew out of Covid 19 andContinueContinue reading “Resistance and Resilience: Grow”
Response to “Liberty”
May 27, 2025 As those who follow this blog know, the theme has shifted to how the creative arts can guide and ground us during these turbulent times around the world, but especially in regard to the current administration in the United States. Resistance and Resilience are the key guidelines. Over the weekend, I postedContinueContinue reading “Response to “Liberty””
Resistance and Resilience: 1
Enos Mills, the “Father of the Rockies,” traveled throughout the Rocky Mountains for years, communing with animals rather than killing them for food or safety. May 20, 2025 A couple of days ago, I introduced a new theme for this blog: https://spiritreflectionsorg.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=4817&action=edit. I extended an invitation to all artists to join this gathering place, envisioningContinueContinue reading “Resistance and Resilience: 1”
An Invitation to Resistance and Resilience
May 15, 2025 Over the next several months, or perhaps years, I’ll be concentrating on the themes of resistance as an act of courage and resilience as an act of resistance through the use of the arts. I recently hiked the Rocky Mountains and was captured by both actions expressed in nature all around me,ContinueContinue reading “An Invitation to Resistance and Resilience”
Green Season
A poem about spring and rebirth.
I Lift My Eyes
Oct. 13, 2022 Since January 2021, after participating in a twelve-week online spirituality/creativity workshop during the COVID-19 shutdown, I have been gathering regularly with five other sojourners whom I have yet to meet in person, via Zoom. They are workshop participants, two from Canada, one from England, and two from NW and NE states. IContinueContinue reading “I Lift My Eyes”
Sacred Cycles
Nov. 17, 2021 I have been extremely fortunate this fall to see so much colorful foliage. Here in the southern states, the leaves typically dry up, turn brown, and tumble away, but this year, perhaps due to all the summer rain, they transformed themselves into muted reds and vibrant yellows. In New Hampshire, the autumnContinueContinue reading “Sacred Cycles”
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