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The famous composer Beethoven, began losing his hearing in his late twenties. He experienced the early signs of tinnitus which results in excessive ringing, whistling and high-pitched roaring in one’s ears. After awhile his hearing was completely gone, yet he continued to compose for decades. There is much to the story regarding his physical torment, anguish and ultimate surrender to his physical condition. There also exists here a powerful testament to the undaunted ability of creation to find its way when it has a willing subject. Experiencing the roar of our own......

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Dear SLCA Family, As I address this by using the word family, I do so with the most beautiful and grateful of intentions. I have long ago discovered that family is rarely those we call our blood relatives but more true to form, it is made up of a patchwork of souls who have shown up in both the lows and the highs, the victories and defeats of life, actively choosing to stick around and dance this dance of life through the thick and the thin. The beautiful one’s in the above......

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It was believed to be the poet June Jordan who first uttered the words, ‘We are the ones we have been waiting for.” I’ve heard this presented many times as a call for the timid, hesitant, fearful part of us to rise up and make bold choices in the way in which we engage in the world. Oftentimes, for lack of self-honoring, we resist. Our internal programming feels incongruent with such boldness and we expend great energy in our resistance to see ourselves as powerful and whole. Sometimes we go as far......

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