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deletedApr 27, 2023Liked by Jason McBride
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I know this might be a trite response, but I'm one of those who finds sacredness in the wilds of nature.

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Thank you, Jason! I like the idea of home being a sacred space. I also find my gardens and the woods behind my home to be sacred places.

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This was lovely. Thank you for sharing.

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Totally honored to be shared with. I've found 'sacred space or place' as well, more in individual areas, like my mini camper, lighthouses, my mini greenhouse (posted). I feel like solitude, beauty, refuge are qualifiers. And I can just-be.

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Jason, I for one would love to hear you read your poetry from someplace deep in the woods where the sounds of birds, insects and the rustling of wind through the trees is your background music. Do it! Do it!

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I like it that so many of us are reclaiming from religion the rights to the sacredness of being fully and autonomously human! ❤ My sacred spaces are in nature, in gardens, in my home, in libraries and bookstores. When I enter a place with lots of books I feel hope, I feel like love is there.

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As far as audio recordings go... I'm deaf so I read the captions if there are any usually with the sound off. I do enjoy seeing the author read, the way they move, their smile. Occasionally I'll turn on the sound to try to hear the voice but usually that doesn't add sound-information for me. 🤷‍♀️ FYI I do occasionally read aloud my own poems or talk on camera because I know other people enjoy it or because it's a way to be silly - like my holiday poem https://youtu.be/SMP6HSiZSj0

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Growing up, both my parents were deeply involved with a spiritual organisation. I grew up steeped in all the scriptures from Christianity, Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Islam... I grew up inside of Thai enormous community.

I’ve had my own tensions and explorations of where I am in relationship with that place of spirit and sacredness. Ultimately, I turned away from it. It was an appropriate turning away, but there was a heartbreak in it - and for years I felt lost.

Finding my direction, meant learning to follow my heart. Another way to say that is learning to listen to life, notice things and follow the trail of what feels sacred.

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I am really enjoying learning a little more about you beyond 17-syllable confines.

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Beautifully written, Jason. I consider my home a sacred space as well for many of the same reasons mentioned in your post!

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Finding sacredness is a choice - one you seem to be making very deliberately and beautifully, I might add - it is a quality of looking at something that you give it, because on their own, at least in my Animistic world view - everything is essentially already sacred. We just do not recognize it, or are willing to see it. I love how you value and add to the sacredness of your home. Many blessings

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May 5, 2023Liked by Jason McBride

What a great view on sacred places. I really like the phrase "Unity does not mean conformity." That is so important.

That crook of two branches looks pretty sacred, too, by the way.

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