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Initiation Writes Back: Helping each other to sit with the questions
Introducing a new advice column of sorts, where I hope you'll weigh in!
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Ryan Rose Weaver, M.Ed.
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August 2023
Initiation Reads: Back-to-school edition
Brought to you by... you!
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Ryan Rose Weaver, M.Ed.
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Following the Thread: Das Rush’s Sacred Five
“My rituals are ways to sit with questions, rather than to prescribe answers.”
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Ryan Rose Weaver, M.Ed.
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July 2023
Exit Interview: How Das Rush became a “creature of imagination”
On finding belonging as a trans dad and writer, from Seoul to Silicon Valley
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Ryan Rose Weaver, M.Ed.
The Beauty of a 'Bluey' Episode About Infertility
The show dares to suggest that sometimes people (well, dogs) on TV don't always get what they want.
Published on Now We're Talking with Doree Shafrir • 
Passing on an "ethics of permission," from coast to coast
How can we convey our values, without centering compliance or conformity?
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Ryan Rose Weaver, M.Ed.
June 2023
Exit Interviews: When God Said Yes to the Rev. Molly Bolton
On breaking off a Christian marriage and discovering queerness at divinity school
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Ryan Rose Weaver, M.Ed.
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Mothers, wounds & Mary Oliver's wisdom
Six shoulder season posts about complicated parents and parenting
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Ryan Rose Weaver, M.Ed.
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Contemplating spaciousness, through smoke
On the maternal mental load, NY's apocalyptic air quality, and Anne Lamott
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Ryan Rose Weaver, M.Ed.
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What do you long for this summer?
Are you going big, going home – or both?
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Ryan Rose Weaver, M.Ed.
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May 2023
Wild geese and mustard seeds
A poem and a parable, to remind us we're not alone
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Ryan Rose Weaver, M.Ed.
Finding a safe place for the mind's loose change
Our Complicated Mother's Day ended in the ER. A rediscovered treasure from my grandmother offered surprising solace.
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Ryan Rose Weaver, M.Ed.
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