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Kiss Your Darlings

A few other faves that don't really fit anywhere else
Kiss Your Darlings
Image of Shuhada' Sadaqat, who recorded under the name Sinéad O’Connor, young and fierce and singing at the mic

Here lie the very niche posts, the ones that might be forgotten about if they didn’t have a home. Welcome to Life is a Sacred Text’s hidden gem collection, the pieces RDR wouldn’t introduce as part of the core curriculum, but nonetheless might hold some of the most interesting meditations on spirituality, creativity, and what makes our human hearts sing. 

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never get old
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do you believe in magic?
more women, more witchcraft
Life is a Sacred TextRabbi Danya Ruttenberg
notes on the creative process
stuff I’ve figured out over 3 1/2 decades of writing
Life is a Sacred TextRabbi Danya Ruttenberg
The Love Psalm Hypothesis
finding the pop music that draws out our best selves
Life is a Sacred TextRabbi Danya Ruttenberg
notes towards a theology of prose
Exploding our creative boundaries can help us seek a connection with the divine that is lived, messy, and sublime.
Life is a Sacred TextRabbi Danya Ruttenberg
Big Dyke Energy
On The Patriarchy, Women’s Sexuality, and the Invention of Heterosexuality
Life is a Sacred TextRabbi Danya Ruttenberg
On True Names
Some Words On Why the Words We Use Matter
Life is a Sacred TextRabbi Danya Ruttenberg
Tattoo Jew
Yids and Tats, Let’s Talk About That
Life is a Sacred TextRabbi Danya Ruttenberg

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