Sitemap - 2023 - Initiation Writes

Composting the old year, planning the new

Initiation Reads: Sensitivity on Substack

Roll Call: A Potluck Dinner For Feelings

Navigating the holidays as a highly-sensitive parent

Finding light, as the days grow darker

Initiation Writes Back: A Sensitive Girl's Guide to the Revolution

Initiation Writes Back: Helping each other to sit with the questions

Initiation Reads: Back-to-school edition

Following the Thread: Das Rush’s Sacred Five

Exit Interview: How Das Rush became a “creature of imagination”

Passing on an "ethics of permission," from coast to coast

Exit Interviews: When God Said Yes to the Rev. Molly Bolton

Mothers, wounds & Mary Oliver's wisdom

Contemplating spaciousness, through smoke

What do you long for this summer?

Wild geese and mustard seeds

Finding a safe place for the mind's loose change

The first rule of Complicated Mothers Day Club is…

Exit Interviews: How reporter Ashley Locke channels her chosen mother's "I'll knife you energy"

How do you define initiation?

Initiation Reads: my friend Josh Gondelman's delightful pep talks

Snow, sun, seeds: five spring essays you may have missed

More of your gardening questions, answered

Learning what to plant, and when

Finding salvation in seed-starting

Meeting the future halfway

Watching the light

Embracing winter as a second skin

Readings to support you in rest

Receiving love from my Mother Trees

Telling my son stories in order to live

Mourning and re-making "the village"

Learning the truth about grief from trees

Starting again, imperfectly