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Julie Marie Todd educator activist journalizer and theologian shares 50 of her writings. Most pieces are in a poetic prose style - a predominantly long-form stream-of-consciousness writing from journal entries and writing groups - alongside a few lengthier prose essays and previously published works. The author explores her own inner emotional terrain and spirituality and how life in both solitude and community generates creativity vulnerability and change. She shares much of her journey from life as an institutional church leader to a wider embrace of spiritual leadership beyond hierarchy and traditional religion. From sweet odes to plant life to encounters with ancestors from confessions of addiction and abortion to body love and self-hatred from ongoing self-examination of the author's own complicity in white Christian supremacy to rants against racism and heteropatriarchy many readers will find Julie's writing compelling provocative and relatable.