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• a capital response: the dichotomy

  by arlia slotkin, high priestess July 16, 2011
  So, i  am awakened and transformed by this notion of assigning meaning to the use or purposeful non-use of capital letters. It makes conscious in me what i have been doing for years, often to criticism. I have always preferred to use a small i as a pronoun and to not capitalize my first name. I...
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• My Calling

  by arlia slotkin, high priestess July 8, 2011
  I can trace my current path to this moment from my journal in 2007.     "The truth that shines through like a prism in the noonday sun is that  I am a woman with something to say and it is time to stop de-valuing my work, time to be who I know I am and not varnish it with socially ...
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• The Grotto

  by arlia slotkin, high priestess February 27, 2011
  On a sunny spring day several years ago, my partner and I decided to walk one of the ancient granite mountains in Georgia.  There are three of them, and they have all been around for generations of indigenous peoples long before we were here. There are many stories of the reverence with which t...
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• Chaos to Form

  by arlia slotkin, high priestess February 25, 2011
  Imagine, if you will...that everything you think you know of yourself is wrong.  Maybe you are not as kind, certain, right, beautiful or ugly, grand or mundane, accomplished or idiotic, talented or simple....as you were convinced you were.  The framework of your construction is crumbli...
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