Shavawn Berry

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Writer/Poet. Teacher/Editor/Creativity Coach. Empath. Songbird. And, yes, Elton John Freak. Shavawn M. Berry’s writing is forthcoming or has appeared in The Huffington Post, elephant journal, The Anjana Network, Be You Media Group, The Good Men Project, Journey of the Heart: Women's Spiritual Poetry, Olentangy Review, Black Fox Literary Magazine, Vagina - The Zine, Rebelle Society, The Cancer Poetry Project 2, Kinema Poetics, Kalliope, Poet Lore, California Quarterly, Westview – A Journal of Western Oklahoma, Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, North Atlantic Review, Concho River Review, Synapse, Living Buddhism, The World Tribune, addictionsolutions.com, Blue Mountain Arts/SPS, Poetry Seattle, and buddhajones.com, to name just a few. In 1998, she received her Master’s degree in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles where she specialized in Creative Nonfiction and Memoir. She teaches writing and editing full-time at a university in the Southwestern United States. She can be reached via her web site: http://www.shavawnmberry.com/ or on her Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/shavawnmidoriberry

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Musings on Grace, Spirituality, Life as Art, and Life in General

LATEST ARTICLES ( 182 )

When Women Were Birds

Heaven and Earth by Catrin Welz-Stein via RedBubble“Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to... Read more
Posted on 23 November 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION
The Dreaming

The Accompanied Journey by Dzaet“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”... Read more
Posted on 16 November 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION
The World Behind the World

Hades and Persephone by Sandara“Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that... Read more
Posted on 09 November 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION
Finding Your Spirit Family

The Dog Whisperer by Carolee S. ClarkFor Barbara“We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis.” ~ LeeAnn TaylorI’ve been thinking a lot about the shape of... Read more
Posted on 03 November 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION
Breadcrumbs in Dark Times

“Allow dark times to season you.” ~ HafizWhen The Going Gets Tough…These days, the rough patch we’re navigating has turned into a very long haul. I believe we’l... Read more
Posted on 26 October 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION
Whatever Doesn’t Kill You, Makes You Stronger

Amanda and Shavawn, August 14, 2013 – Photo by Karen Wilson“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Chinese ProverbMy mother’s the strongest person I know. ... Read more
Posted on 19 October 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION
We Can’t Do Everything, But We Can Do Something

“To find the way, close your eyes, listen closely, and attend with your heart.” ~ AnonymousMany people dismiss the emotional, intuitive side of life as too... Read more
Posted on 12 October 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION
You’re Stronger Than You Know

“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really... Read more
Posted on 05 October 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION
Stillness

Image by Milly Rose Non-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to cultivate non-doing,... Read more
Posted on 28 September 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION
The Hunger Games

Image by April MoordEvery gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not... Read more
Posted on 21 September 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION
Birth and Death: Coming Full Circle

“Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of... Read more
Posted on 14 September 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION
Getting Lost

“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” ~ Henry David Thoreau Getting lost is not a waste of time.After a long week of busyness, yesterday ... Read more
Posted on 07 September 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION
Like a Prayer

Meditation in a green field, Source: Bigstock“May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.” ~ Mother TeresaWith all the saber-rattling an... Read more
Posted on 31 August 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION
Nurturing Our Inner Light

“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our... Read more
Posted on 24 August 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION
Sweetness

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love.... Read more
Posted on 17 August 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION
Burning This Life to Ash

“It is all connected,” by Catrin Welz-Stein“If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form... Read more
Posted on 02 August 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION
Love > Fear

“Our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasure.” ~ Rainer Maria RilkeFace it. The world is more than a little coo-coo for cocoa puffs these... Read more
Posted on 27 July 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION
Focusing on What You Want

I am in the most hermetic phase of the summer now. The temperatures in Phoenix are in the triple digits, tempers flare, cars overheat, dust storms roll through. Read more
Posted on 20 July 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION
You Are What You Eat

“Let food be thy medicine, and let thy medicine be food.” ~ HippocratesOver the past three weeks I’ve been detoxing from sugar, dairy, soy, corn, gluten and... Read more
Posted on 13 July 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION
Perfect

“You are perfect, to me.” ~ Pink“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.” ~ Wayne DyerI remember the hell that was middle school. I remembe... Read more
Posted on 05 July 2013 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

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