Sitemap - 2024 - Voices of the Hopeful

Rediscovering the Pain of Books

Find Fun in 2025

Commonplace Book invitation from Jillian Hess

Rediscovering the Joy of Books

Love Letter #78: Learning to read all over again

Lit Soup

Cognitive dissonance cuts both ways

Deep reading ... an experiment

Post-Election Stress Disorder (PESD)

Accepting "Failure"

Finding gratitude in bewildering times

Obituary ... or Life Sketch: chapter 1

“Never again,” we said after almost 5,000 children were separated from their families

The vine that ate the South

Love Letter #77 to my life: Moscow, 1990

Amplify5: What can we do?

The German citizens of 1930 did not know a pandemic of hate was coming

What haven't we tried ...

Stevie Wonder: let us celebrate the struggle!

Elizabeth Warren thanks YOU ... the beating heart of our democracy

Rachel says, "Get Scrappy"

Dumbfounded!

Vote!

"Women's rights are the first to go"

Blue or Red, we will go on

The slippery slope of conflict and war

"Country over Party" heroes give me hope

The Presidential Transition Act is a LAW

The ONE most important difference: a president for ALL Americans

Trump/Vance and Project 2025 are not just another political operation

Blowing into Paonia

Leaving MAGA Part 2: Why are we here?

Love Letter #76 to my life: Typewriter Interviews

NYT: "How to be truly free"

Leaving MAGA, part 1: How we got here

Political Wisdom from Robin Wall Kimmerer

DJT Court timeline by Mary L. Trump

Counting the gifts of this election ... regardless of the final result

Why so many wacko conspiracy theories?

A dozen+ reasons to vote for Kamala rather than him, plus a challenge to add more

Heroes come in many forms

Abortion and Women's Healthcare

The biggest danger of a Trump presidency ...

"There is no moral diagram of this crime ..."

Love Letter to My Life #75: What should be on my tombstone?

The Great Coalescence: You are an influencer

Fact-checking Fact-checkers

Project 2025: The plan to build a bigger closet

Sharing my peaceful place

9 weeks day-by-day

A surprising take on "phone banking"

Clearing the deck for "9 Weeks"

COVID: Four years later: what did we learn?

Home Ec: The Dress ... reclaiming the pieces

Love Letter #74: When everything turns upside down

"The new national anthem"

Hagfish and Project 2025

Project 2025 in 8 minutes with no drama

Project 2025: recommended reads related to 10 areas of interest

Start here: Celebrate life's wild beauty

Project 2025: the hot potato no one seems to want

Project 2025: Complete overview in a two minute video ... plus transcript and TOC

August: 31 Radiant Questions to ask yourself

Summertime and the haiku is easy

Nov 5 2024

Project 2025 ... Talking Point Series #1

A mouse-eye view of what really happened

Being reminded of the sacredness of everything

Love Letter: Dancing with life is a most curious thing

Surprisingly simple exercise to clarify your style

Reflecting on early failures can unlock hidden treasures within

PKM: Personal Knowledge Management

The Canyon

July: 31 Thoughts from 31 Books

Just for Notes: a new monthly review process

Then and Now

What's on your bingo card? The Game

Messy organizational tools Series, 2 of 6

People love to read and share creative flipbooks

Love Letter: Wild Beauty and the gift of sunlight

Messy, organizational tools, 1 of 6

How do we change minds?

Memoir (grief)

#10 The memoir I didn't want to write returns

What is the future of Substack Writers?

Why did Homer call it a wine-dark sea?

#9 The memoir I didn't want to write returns

June: 30 Days of Paul Klee art & quotes

Adventure or a Pilgrimage? Attention: Brian Swimme fans

#8 The memoir I didn't want to write returns

Walking through the mind of a genius

#7 The memoir I didn't want to write returns

Love Letter to My Life #71: Perfection and Beauty

Beyond habits: life patterns for greater flexibility

#6 The memoir I didn't want to write returns

Sliding into a slough of so what, I’m zapped by a bolt of electrified enthusiasm

#5 The memoir I didn't want to write returns

Wild Beauty, May 2024

Grieving/celebrating the book I didn’t get to write

Substack as your journal

Apologies ... pdf link missing from last post.

#4 The memoir I didn't want to write returns

Fantasy gallops in on the back of a silver-white stallion

#3 The memoir I didn't want to write returns

Love Letter to My Life #70: Life list of a different color

#2 The memoir I didn't want to write returns

WordJazz, part #1

Wild Beauty: Without flowers … no humans

#1 The memoir I didn't want to write returns

Speed Bumps on the Journal Journey

Back to Wonder: April, 2024

Iris Songs - Substack posts of transformation

"How high's the water, Mama?"

Twilight words

You can’t find your tribe if you’re not wearing your colors

Been there, done that syndrome

Love Letter to My Life #69: Regaining beginner's mind

How many times do you go back to your dream?

"Cabrini," the feel good movie about an American hero

When the world beats a path to your door …

My reluctant journey to womanhood

Notebooking takes time and space

What do you do if you don't have the audience you want?

March, 2024 - March Beckons

Iris Songs - Substack posts of transformation

Hypothetically, it’s open mic night ...

Creating a Wonder Wall

What is an adventure?

President's Day ... on the whole we've had a good run

Love Letter to my Life #68: Following Curiosity

Are we asking the wrong question?

The Danger Is Not a Man … It’s a Detailed Plan

Vagabonding? … or … Projecting?

"Loud Budgeting": Talking about money

When the Universe wants you to do something

February, 2024 - Hermann Hesse

You're invited to go Vagabonding ...

What I did on the New Journey ...

This is what sometimes happens on Substack:

The roosters crowed

TIL: I’m only 4,000 years behind

Love Letter to My Life #67: My new writer's screwdriver

Frustrated with Google?

Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks

Blessings of Nature

We talk about the Imposter Syndrome a lot

Why am I calling it a fantasy?

Wonder Women of Cherán

A loose stone ... and a curious mind

January - creativity

A new year tickles a yearning

2024 Intention: Write Deeper into STORY