Tea with the Muse
An encouraging word through poetry, prayer, stories, inquiries, riffs and dares in spoken word. You can also find us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 11 minutes
- Episodes
- 211
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Listen to Your Heart
Freedom
by Shiloh Sophia
The unsolved mysteries
of the heart are always present
It doesn’t matter how many times
we have been loved or been hurt
Still, the heart is a grand mystery
We cannot control it
we ca…
The Perfect Studio
The Perfect Studio
The Perfect Studio
has a door that closes
There’s enough room there
to not have my back to the door
the kitties are present
There’s a big table
to spread out and make a mess
marked with y…
Fur teacup and the New York City Muse
Shiloh Sophia by Jonathan McCloud @the MoMa and Fur Breakfast by Meret Oppenheim Le Déjeuner en fourrure Au the MoMa
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Tiny Portal - An Intentional Creativity Practice
#letthemusechoose Tiny Portal: Choose one of your more abstract paintings or an under-painting layer. Look at it with a soft gaze. Imagine that one part of it suddenly becomes a portal door and light…
The Death of Effort
The muses, the graces and the flurries are stirring things up again and they are feeding my my own medicine.
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Choosing to See - inquiry
“An average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and …
Time for Tea and Prayer
I am thinking of you today....
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My mother and the Great Adventure
My mom taught me that I had choice. This phrase "the great adventure' inspires my life and this painting by the same name.
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Deciding to Matter
Dear Ones,
Generations of women have been taught and programmed to believe we don’t matter. The suicide rate for girls is getting younger and younger. No matter how many articles we write about it an…
Meet me in the Shimmering
Painting by Shiloh Sophia: CeremonyIntentional Creativity is mindulness in motion
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God and Moss and Sue
Oak Tree Covered in Moss at Wild Water Creek, Sonoma Mountain, California
Intentional Creativity is mindfulness in Motion
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Falling in love and Dappled Green Light
Wild Water Forest, Sonoma Mountain, California
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Entering the Portal of Compassion
Enter the Portal of Compassion
Dear One
I often wonder
why some people care so much
and some people don't care so much
Is it possible to teach compassion
or do we have to awaken to it
through personal exper…
Ingredients for Waking Up Slowly
Dear Hearts,
How do you wake up each day? Do you pick up your phone? Listen to the news? Rush to the shower? Grumble about what is before you? The most sacred of all things for humans is the awareness…
A Word of Encouragement
Dear Hearts
I just wanted to extend a soft word of encouragement today - an invitiation to choose beauty. Blessings wherever you are and whatever you are dealing with
Big Love,
Shiloh Sophia
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