Segullah's Blog, page 22
December 17, 2020
Meet Co-Editor-in-Chief, Jessie Christensen
Getting To Know Jessie Sherilyn: Your day job? Jessie: I work as a library cataloger in an academic library. I create the metadata that describes books that are in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian so people can find them in the library’s catalog. I love working with books and information and I love that my...
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Winter Journal Editorial
I admired a snowflake decoration hanging in a co-worker’s cubicle remarking how I wished I could make something like that. When I guessed that it was beyond my skill level, she assured, “Oh, no! They’re simple. You can make it in five minutes.” She showed me how, and I really could! (I’ve made a couple...
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December 11, 2020
Of Advent and Angels
This coming Sunday is the 3rd week of Advent. LDS liturgy (such as it is) tends to rotate more around General Conferences than the holy days the rest of Christianity acknowledges. (With the pandemic that’s all been upended even more.) Having grown up in a Protestant tradition, I fondly remember singing in the children’s choir...
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December 9, 2020
Esther Hi’ilani Candari: Segullah’s Featured Artist
Esther Hi’ilani Candari’s radiant artwork introduces viewers to cultural and spiritual expansion through vivid colors, compositional strength, and skilled techniques. Esther’s artwork is not just what we appreciate in the surface image itself. She invites viewers to contemplate complex issues about life, expectations for women, and even the impact of social stigma. We are delighted...
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December 2, 2020
An Uncovering
My list of gains and losses over the past nine months probably look like a lot of yours. I don’t want to do another post on the pandemic that shall not be named. I know we are saturated from the endless news cycles or real life effects blaring at us. At times I have the...
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November 30, 2020
Words Fall In: An Interview with Lauri Schoenfeld
Not only is Lauri Schoenfeld a diverse writer, she is an advocate and healer for hurt souls. A survivor of abuse and child scoliosis, Lauri has overcome those challenges and through deep introspection guides others along the same healing path. She is the greater of Inner Enlightenment, a business built around connecting to your inner...
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November 27, 2020
Shake Sorrow from Your Heart
Today the sun shone. Today the sky was blue. Today I touched the hand of someone I love. I think we all know it’s easy for the expressed gratitude of others to turn saccharine in our own hearts. We don’t believe their gratitude, or feel like it interrupts or cheapens our own, or exists expressly...
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November 26, 2020
Doorway Into Thanks
It’s Thanksgiving morning and I woke to an unexpected skiff of snow across our backyard. I opened the front door and could hear an audible sparkling in the air, a soft pattering noise, as tiny tufts of white dropped listlessly to the ground from nearby pines. It is a beautiful thing to examine the natural...
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November 24, 2020
Gracious
We arrived at exactly the wrong time. Dressed in t-shirts and sweats, my husband carried the faded grocery store flowers. I clutched a card and rang my friend Angela’s doorbell to offer condolences on the death of her mother. I anticipated a quick hand-off, a few words of sympathy on the doorstep and a promise...
gracious
We arrived at exactly the wrong time. Dressed in t-shirts and sweats, my husband carried the faded grocery store flowers. I clutched a card and rang my friend Angela’s doorbell to offer condolences on the death of her mother. I anticipated a quick hand-off, a few words of sympathy on the doorstep and a promise...
