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To Crazy Wisdom Community Journal’s Readers and Advertisers –
In the spirit of responding in a practical way to what is happening, we have postponed the publishing of our Spring/Summer Issue (May thru August 2020 – Issue #75) due to all the reverberations and fallout from the Covid-19 Pandemic. Our editorial content is all set to go, but so many of our advertisers are closed for business currently, and they’ve asked to postpone their advertisements. Additionally, so many of our 235 local/regional distribution spots are closed that we wouldn’t be able to distribute most of our 11,000-copy print run.

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Parable of the Sweet Pea
Parable of the Sweet Pea

Then came the day when I got home from work and found just a few shreds of mangled stems and leaves. One of the groundskeepers had managed to find the only healthy green plant in sight on that early spring day, and he decided it must be a weed. (Even though it was inside my patio fence at the base of a trellis for the vines to climb on!)

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Rituals of Care
Rituals of Care

One type of activity I’ve been thinking a lot about lately is something I’ve decided to start calling “Rituals of Care”—those activities we do that include a certain care component—that is some aspect of the labor that feeds into something greater than what it does, in a practical, applied sense, for you.

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Renewal
Renewal

As I turned back to my book, I heard a tap on the window. I stiffened, imagining an ominous creature lurking outside, knocking on the pane. Just as I relaxed, assuring myself the wind was blowing rain against the glass, there was another tap. With caution, I approached the window and peered out into the storm. Lightning flashed, illuminating the face of my friend. Smiling, I opened it to let him in. Instead, he encouraged me to follow him out, into the storm.

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Grace
Grace

While delicate and beautiful, ice is powerful and merciless. Trees bent under the increasing weight, resembling our own huddled bodies as we snuggled under quilts. We gasped at the sound of wood groaning and splitting, and we watched a large branch fall to the frozen ground below. Tiny twigs snapped and tumbled toward the arms of their mother branch, scattering ice across the yard. Raising our gaze to the top of a giant cherry, we studied the space where the large branch let go, looking for other branches that might follow.

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Saint Patrick and the Fae Folk of Ireland
Saint Patrick and the Fae Folk of Ireland

This popular missionary saint is best known for introducing Christianity to pagan Ireland during the 5th century AD. I thought it would be interesting ask the Irish Fae (aes sidhe) for their viewpoint on the massive cultural changes resulting from Patrick’s work, which disrupted ancient relationships between humans and the many species of fae folk.

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Love: Grandmother's Wisdom and Little Women Lessons
Love: Grandmother's Wisdom and Little Women Lessons

Inspired by Louisa May Alcott's 'I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship' from Little Women, reflections on my Polish grandmother's enduring wisdom, sewing as mending metaphor, family moments in snowy February, and finding hope amid change and loss.

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Meet Comedian, Shelly Smith
Meet Comedian, Shelly Smith

Shelly Smith had been building toward her one woman show for years, but it wasn’t until the night before it opened that she completed it. “I booked the date, then I knew I had to finish it,” Smith explained. “It was not done ‘til literally those last 24 hours, as I was fine tuning it.”

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How Does He Love Me? Let me Count the Ways: Understanding the Give and Take Across Love Languages
How Does He Love Me? Let me Count the Ways: Understanding the Give and Take Across Love Languages

After 32 years of marriage, I discovered how The 5 Love Languages—acts of service, words of affirmation, physical touch, quality time, and gifts—deepen connection. From sunroof surprises to quiet dances, real stories of love that lasts.

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A Spiritual Channeling of The “North Star”
A Spiritual Channeling of The “North Star”

A conversation with Polaris, the “North” star

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Darkness Doesn’t Eat
Darkness Doesn’t Eat

Once terrified of the dark—haunted by sleepwalking and shadowy fears—I learned to see darkness as a gentle, restful lady. Through winter nights and motherhood, find peace in the quiet beauty of night. Reflections on overcoming fear.

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Advertisers Highlight, May 2026, Week #3
Advertisers Highlight, May 2026, Week #3

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An Interview with Psychotherapist on Authentic Masculinity and Embodied Healing
An Interview with Psychotherapist on Authentic Masculinity and Embodied Healing

Daniel DeSena is a social worker and psychotherapist who has become active in leading male embodiment and self-mastery workshops locally, and also nationally on Zoom. He is passionate about the intersection of spirituality, meditation, energy work, martial arts, sexuality and embodiment. He and his twin sister, and younger brother, were raised in the Pittsburgh area. Now 52, he’s been in southeastern Michigan for 30+ years.

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Pollinator Hotels Part 2: Welcome Back, Bees!
Advertisers Highlight, May 2026, Week #2
Advertisers Highlight, May 2026, Week #2

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Annie G’s: A Dairy Farm for the Future
Annie G’s: A Dairy Farm for the Future

Let me introduce you to Annie G’s, a small herd dairy cow farm run by Kat and her husband David Mageean. This dynamic duo, along with their two young children, Annie and Angus, whom the Dairy is named after, have a dream of their own to share. Their dream is to make the “100 cow dairy farm” viable again and they are working to revolutionize the dairy industry to help encourage others to do the same.

Building a Green Legacy with Mike and Andrea Mahon
Building a Green Legacy with Mike and Andrea Mahon

The Mahons don’t endeavor to build their client’s dream home. “We prefer to build their ‘legacy home’ to be passed down for generations,” said Andrea Mahon. The goal is anchored in something more tangible than today’s dreams. “We build homes to last, but more so, to matter,” Mike Mahon added. And that is what the Mahons work so hard toward. In 2006, Mike Mahon founded Adaptive Building Solutions (ABS) here in Ann Arbor to be part of the zeitgeist. “I knew it was the perfect place to start a business that focuses on sustainability.”

Advertisers Highlight, May 2026, Week #1
Advertisers Highlight, May 2026, Week #1

We are so appreciative for our advertisers in each issue, and you should be too! They help keep The Crazy Wisdom Community Journal FREE in print and online. Please support them by clicking on their ad below to find out more about their services.

Resurrection, Reincarnation, and 5D: The Soul Experience Explored
Resurrection, Reincarnation, and 5D: The Soul Experience Explored

At the simplest level, resurrection is understood as coming back to life after death. At the simplest level, reincarnation is understood as coming back to life after death but in a different body or form. Both resurrection and reincarnation provide a path to purpose and enduring existence of soul consciousness.

Slowing the Scroll: How Amy Kimball’s Teen Photo Camps Are Reframing Photography
Slowing the Scroll: How Amy Kimball’s Teen Photo Camps Are Reframing Photography

It could be said that teens these days are more inundated with imagery than ever before via the glowing box in their pockets. Everyone is a photographer in 2026. Everyone is a content creator. But when kids are chasing the perfect feed, instead of the golden hour, the art of photography becomes lost. When teens are looking without seeing, snapping without thinking, a disconnect between heart and brain forms that Amy Kimball, of Amy Kimball Photography, is trying to bridge. Enter her teen photo camps.

Moments That Matter: How Zion Well Builds Community Through Mindfulness
Moments That Matter: How Zion Well Builds Community Through Mindfulness

For Aubrey and Art Schupbach, a little goes a long way. It is a little mindfulness, in the form of a friendly check-in with a yoga patron they haven’t seen in a while. A little stretching in the morning, to get the body in the right mental and physical space to move about the rest of the day. A little meditation session in the afternoon to remind oneself that the quiet times are just as important as the loud ones. The Schupbachs have found that these little moments are what create the foundation that supports a larger community. It’s these moments that help make Zion Well what it is: a studio rooted in community, mental health, and purpose.

 

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