Carolyn Brigit Flynn
Sinéad O'Connor: Universal Mother
This essay was originally published on my new Substack Newsletter... "Oh, what a summer. The planet burns, the oceans boil, and cities..."
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Carolyn Brigit Flynn
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Below are occasional essays since 2009.
PLEASE NOTE that this blog has moved to my monthly Substack Newsletter beginning August 2023.
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Carolyn Brigit Flynn
Aug 3, 20224 min read
Witnessing the Other: Bewilderness by Kat Brown
Your image of an animal shelter may be many things, depending upon your life experience. You might think of a place for kittens ...
Carolyn Brigit Flynn
May 31, 20214 min read
Walking In Space
Contemplating the cosmos. When I turn around, I see that the sky has turned orange in the few minutes it took to walk down the road...
Carolyn Brigit Flynn
Oct 19, 20204 min read
Together In the Land
It was a fine summer day in 1996 when I drove up to our family's ancient Flynn stone cottage on Farm Road in County Roscommon in Ireland...
Carolyn Brigit Flynn
Jun 22, 20203 min read
The Path to Return
Heavy rains last night, all night long. It made me happy, gave me comfort, that the natural world continues on unabated. As I fell asleep..
Carolyn Brigit Flynn
Mar 31, 20205 min read
Safe Houses: Giving Refuge
Modern-day safe houses comprise a worldwide wisdom body, though each part has no full knowledge of the whole...
Carolyn Brigit Flynn
Oct 16, 20198 min read
Across the Watershed
January 12, 2019 5 pm Dear Friends, I’ve just been out on a walk, following my usual route in my ordinary neighborhood, a place of...
Carolyn Brigit Flynn
Nov 12, 20185 min read
The World Split Open
The poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote in 1968, “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.” For...
Carolyn Brigit Flynn
Oct 3, 20175 min read
Love and the Earth: An Interview with Deena Metzger
Deena Metzger is a novelist, poet and essayist, and my long-time friend and teacher. Her new novel, A Rain of Night Birds, is an...
Carolyn Brigit Flynn
Aug 17, 20176 min read
OUR TRUE HOME: Total Eclipse of the Sun
SOMETHING SLIPPED AWAY FROM me on August 21, 2017 at 10:19 am. It left when I saw the Sun turn black with a pulsing silver ring around...
Carolyn Brigit Flynn
Aug 14, 20175 min read
Total Solar Eclipse: A Conversation with Astrologer Sue Heinz
A Conversation with Astrologer Sue Heinz This is an edited transcript from Sue Heinz’ monthly astrology talk in Santa Cruz in July 2017,...
Carolyn Brigit Flynn
Sep 21, 20147 min read
Of Glaciers & Love
What can be said about a majestic journey on a catamaran boat into the Kenai Fjords? Was it the black bear, so black as to have a bluish...
Carolyn Brigit Flynn
Sep 11, 20145 min read
Northern Lights & the Wild
Last night, the phone rang in our room in Alaska's Denali National Park at 1:10 am. It was the hotel calling to say the Northern Lights...
Carolyn Brigit Flynn
Sep 9, 20145 min read
First Night in Denali
My first night in Denali, and I had a strange dream. It was as if the mountain was speaking, carrying me into my own depths. Strange...
Carolyn Brigit Flynn
Dec 15, 20091 min read
A Tour of Sisters, Singing
In 2009, I embarked on a joyous nationwide tour with dozens of contributors to Sisters Singing. Read my blog from our journey HERE.
Carolyn Brigit Flynn
Dec 14, 20058 min read
Requiem
for Daniel Michael Flynn (1960-2004) In the pale light I brought him a mound of earth, dank and dark, and he, tall, taller than when I...
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