Growth and release The day I took this picture, the garden volunteer had gathered people around and was releasing butterflies one by one. They had hatched from their chrysalises in their glass enclosures, and been transferred to a netted box. With the volunteer’s reach, grab and release, they were let go into their new lives […]
AUDIO YOU
We are starting a collection of audio featurettes. For Issue 3, “Sound and Fury,” we want to HEAR you. Record a short message using the audio memo app on your smartphone. Send it to Voices@SoulGrowthRadio.com. Please record your message in 90 seconds or less (shoot for 60). Choose a prompt. Tell us your name. Tell […]
Welcome to our New Advice Columnist, Isabel Abbott
We’re almost beside ourselves to welcome Isabel Abbott, of Lists and Letters, as Soul Growth Radio’s new advice columnist. The sumptuous Isabel will be lacing spiritual conversation in our pages with the sensual, physical, corporeal. Spiritual embodiment. Please send Isabel your letters and questions, to answer in her first column, coming in July. Our Issue […]
Angelic Intervention
A Soul Growth Radio reader and I had what she called an “angelic intervention” last week. She was touched by a conversation in the SGR Facebook group and called me to say it lifted her in just the right moment. She was having a challenging day as a mother: Feeling exhausted and facing too much […]
Nature, Social Justice, Earth Justice
Two different birds have hovered outside the window today, looking in at me for a while before flying off–a hummingbird and a bluejay. In considering this, I hear in my head “I Know Why” as in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and I think of this because, with the wildlife out there looking […]
Mic Check Blog
Spirits, Closets and Community (Oh My) The closet and I have an intimate relationship. Eighteen years and umpteen side jobs ago, I was the editor in chief of The Bulletin, the California Central Coast’s LGBT and HIV/AIDS Community magazine. We were centered in Santa Barbara and we outreached to a Tri-County area. But our small […]