Alphabetical by First Name

• Alison Kaye Seveon [Alison Kaye Sev own]
• Alyse Parise [Al-yeeese Pah-ree-si]
  
• Aimee Tomczak [Amy Tom - Zak] **
  
• Ann Berljafa
  
• Anne Clay **
  
• Annie Huthnance [Annie Huth nance]
  
• Beth Kline-Pedersen
  
• Carolyn Siegel [Carolyn Seagull]
• Catherine Solomons
• Chanel Hacker [Sha-nel Hacker]
  
• Charney Engelbrecht [Che-Nay Engelbrecht]
• Chatelle Jeram [Sha-tel Jeram]
• Cindy Soper [Cindy SOAPER]
  
• Constance Chapman
• Cornelia Rabia Meinhardt
• Christy Moe Marek 
• Deniese Renee Wool-folk
• Emma J Coddington Brown
• Enitzaida Rodríguez [eneetzaeida or AnytZaida Rodríguez]
  
• Gina Aussie Milinovich [Gina Aussie Mil i no vich]
  
• Helen Christina
  
• Helen Spedding
• Janiese Wesley [Jan--ease Wesley]
  
• Jennifer Krumm [Jennifer Crumb]
• Julie McCord
• Karen Thompson **
  
• Krystal Dyan (Krystal Diane)
  
• Liliana Garcia
• Lisa Gerardine **
  
• Lisa Martin Naimi
  
• Loretta Pickford
• Maasa Craig [Maah Sa Craig]
• Marnie Dangerfield
• MaryJo Briggs
• Mia Walters [Me-Ah Walters]
  
• Michelle Bernard
  
• Monique Byres [Monique Buyers]
  
• Myrna Martin ** 
• Nina Rubea Jäger 
• Riikka Pauliina Ussa
• Robin Dyer [Rob-in Dy-er]**
• Robin Kimbrel Wiggs
• Susan S. Voss
• Terri L. Russ
  
• Teri! Freesmeyer [Teri FREEz my er]
  
• Tova Ramer [Toe Vuh Ramer]
  
• True Whiting [True White-ing]
• Yannah (YAH nah)

**Asterisk indicates they are still in process but will be finished by 10/1

The Importance of Being Fully You 

By Amber Samaya © 2022

There is a hunger for being

The kind of being that comes from 

Essence

From connection 

And interconnection

Being like seasons 

Coming full circle

Again and again, 

Swirling and twirling in your

Changes,

The grace and promise of cycle, 

The life death life again nature

That you can trust

Being like a quest

Where meaning is made

Courage is accessed

Strength is required

Muscles grow

And the mountaintop is reached 

Through the good kind of hard

That gets you where you

Ache to go. 

The travail of birth

The powerful softening

That brings the gift through you

Being fully expressed, 

Like the song of the seed, 

Unfolding just as you are made to unfold

Just as you KNOW KNow KNOW you can unfold

No alterations or added ingredients needed

Just the right conditions for growth

The good soil, 

The sun and the rain, 

The compost 

A gentle pruning now and again, 

Yes, being like that seed

That just surrenders to becoming. 

Why this need to BE who we really are? 

Why does it feel so relentlessly important? 

Why this persistent tug, 

This Deep call, this gravitational 

Sometimes painful pull toward 

Our Soul Work?

That we just 

Can’t give up on

No matter how hard, 

How long

How far we must go? 

Why? 

Oh sister, I feel it with you. The question, 

And also I feel the answer too. 

I have often wondered

In the hard moments, 

In the weary times, 

If it even matters

In the grand scheme of things

In the Great Unfolding 

If I -  little old me, and little old you - 

BEING who I really am and being who you really are

REALLY counts?

And then the beauteous intoxicating gracious scent of roses moves into my senses, 

I can see them, the roses, out the corner of my eye

These ones have fought to survive two hard summers of heat

Now stronger than ever, content in their well watered containers

Unfolding fully in the mid-summer sun, 

And I wonder what the world would be like without roses! 

Without the scent of pure grace coming from their petals,

And this scent brings me back to you, and me and us and

This BEING who we really are. 

It matters because….

You are a part and not separate. 

Creation, created to create. 

You are of Earth and remnant of stars, 

embodied, gifted with senses, 

a festival of matter, 

A seedsong all your own, 

Manifested in a unique, one of a kind framework, 

A portal for life to express its poetry 

Its unceasing beauty

A ripple that moves out across the water

A soul touching other souls

A vibration in the web, felt by the web

A conscious being with the ability to make 

Such big and important choices that have impact

 That create substance 

That bring matter into form

With the ability to know love, to feel it, to gather it, 

And share it with the rest of creation. 

A collaborator with LIFE, whose medicine basket 

Has magic remedies that only YOU being YOU

Being Creative, Being at cause, being fully alive

Fully awake, and fully aware of your impact, 

Your value as a member of the collective, 

Of the TOTAL value,

Could so intentionally, so consciously, 

Create and administer!

My sister, YOU being YOU

Is a scent that the world cannot live without

So, SAY YOUR OWN NAME 

Say it daily 

Say it now! 

(say it with me now) 

YOu are a scent the world cannot live without

You are Mattering Matter

You are Life unfolding 

You Being You is your

Gift back to Life!

You being you

Is the meaning of your life! 

The one that is in your hands, 

Your mind, 

Your heart, 

You consciousness, 

You ability to act. 

You being YOU

Living your Soul Work, 

Is the seed of you unfolding 

As you know it can and it must. 

Never doubt this. 

Never stop saying your own name. 

Recall the scent of the rose. 

And never underestimate

The Importance

Of BEING

FULLY 

YOU