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  • Dawn Downey, Author & Blogger

    Dawn Downey’s blog will lift your spirits and challenge your assumptions. She writes about everyday life in a tone that is introspective, occasionally slapstick. Although her posts are true stories about her own experiences, her fans ask, “How did you get inside my head?”  And check out her new book: Blindsided: Essays from the Only Black Woman […]

  • Abundant Everyday Joy

    If I were to sum up what I do, I would say that I am a seeker, sharing fragments of truth through two blogs. Breathe In – Breathe Out is a series of short meditations on everyday life. Lessons are longer pieces sharing some of the life lessons from 70+ years on this planet. My […]

  • Mid-week quote

    Our world is to be enjoyed so, hopefully, many things will catch your eye. Few things will catch your heart and pull you to them so that you can’t let go – for a while or for the rest of your life. These are the things that will change us and through that passion, we […]

  • And Today We Begin

    I live in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, less than a mile from the Ravenel Bridge, a bridge that has new meaning today. As the world knows, nine people were shot at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston on Wednesday. That, in and of itself was a horrible tragedy. And, that single act of unconscionable violence also […]

  • Courting Creativity

    I have been wishing my creativity back into being. It is returning in bizarre fits and starts, most often in dreamtime. The other morning, I wrote and recited a long poem about spring on the stage in another Universe. I felt and heard myself read it for a crowd who seemed appreciative. I felt the […]

  • I #@&^% Love Science

    This blog title comes from one of my favorite Facebook pages. It’s so true, and I love the fact that it graphically expresses how I feel about the science. Science and my perspective collide in the most astonishing ways. As a lifelong intuitive, I don’t need scientific explanations of events. Most of the time, I am […]

  • Crossroads

    I am at an interesting place in life – a crossroads – a huge phase of cleanup. Spirit spoke to me of this in meditation and my current astrological chart confirms this. I am not quite half way through this two-year cycle. I was told that it is time to clean house on every level. […]