Julie Quiroz
Midnight Call
I received a call at a little before midnight.
I was asleep. My 14-year old daughter had just crawled into my bed after studying late ...
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Julie Quiroz
- Oct 12
- 3 min
Blind Spot
Last week I traveled to a small gathering of some core partners. One of them mentioned, in passing, his "blind spot" and how he's learning
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Julie Quiroz
- Sep 13
- 2 min
Tomato Dreams
I like to measure my days in delight. The delight of roosters crowing in the morning twilight, as I lie cozy in my bed...
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Julie Quiroz
- Aug 16
- 3 min
Breadfruit
A new friend here loves to walk at sunrise, before the heat. We walk and he points out the plants that have been with him since childhood ..
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Julie Quiroz
- Jul 16
- 3 min
Accelerating Kindness
My friend and badass organizer Maria says the only thing she really cares about is kindness ...
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Julie Quiroz
- Jun 15
- 1 min
The Practices of Power
This past week, as my friends and family in Detroit and New York struggled to breath with northern wildfire smoke billowing in ..
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Julie Quiroz
- May 17
- 2 min
In the Presence of Elder Black Midwives
Last weekend I entered a room of Elder Black Midwives, into a realm of power and spirit that I’ve rarely, if ever experienced in my life.
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Julie Quiroz
- Apr 18
- 3 min
Bringing to Light
In many Spanish-speaking countries, “dar a luz” means to give birth. In English, the words “dar a luz” translate beautifully ...
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Julie Quiroz
- Mar 19
- 2 min
Stirring It Up
While a sprout lifting its head from the soil brings me to tears, and I once wrote a poem about a cucumber in my container garden ...
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Julie Quiroz
- Feb 19
- 3 min
Finding Energy
2.20.23 New Moon I’m a little behind on my 2023 intention setting. I usually spend the first week of January reflecting on the past year...
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Julie Quiroz
- Jan 20
- 2 min
Feeling Our Way
1.21.23 New Moon I don’t believe that I really know anything unless I physically experience it. And, even then, meaning only comes when I...
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Julie Quiroz
- Dec 20, 2022
- 1 min
Best Intention Ever
I'm staying open
to where I need to be,
to who I need to be.
I'm choosing wonder over certainty,
possibility over control ...
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Julie Quiroz
- Nov 20, 2022
- 3 min
Chimera
I am a chimera. In the tissue of my body lives the ancestral DNA I was born with. Forty percent Indigenous Andean, 40 percent European,...
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Julie Quiroz
- Oct 25, 2022
- 2 min
A Guest
Last month I moved to Puerto Rico, fulfilling a commitment I made nearly a year ago, to collaborate with friends who had returned to the...
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Julie Quiroz
- Sep 22, 2022
- 2 min
Co-Creation
For the first five years of my daughter's life, I told her a story every night. Cuddled in bed, I would invent new story after new story,...
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Julie Quiroz
- Aug 26, 2022
- 3 min
Scars
When my daughter was three, a small mass appeared in my right breast. I spoke to my daughter as gently as I could ...
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Julie Quiroz
- Jul 27, 2022
- 2 min
Every New Moon*
Every new moon reminds me that whole worlds exist before we can see them. This truth deeply guides my work. My new moon practice began a...
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Julie Quiroz
- Jun 27, 2022
- 1 min
Remember
In May, when we first learned of the Supreme Court's impending ruling on Roe v. Wade, our team at Birth Center Equity* talked together...
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Julie Quiroz
- May 27, 2022
- 2 min
Beyond Words
I visit my father most Sundays, in the nursing home where he's lived for several years. My father has Alzheimer's, but is in excellent...
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Julie Quiroz
- Apr 28, 2022
- 3 min
Food Culture
Food culture consists of the relationships and experiences we engage through food—the way food shapes our experiences of the world ...
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