Julie Quiroz
Tempted By Scarcity
I’m tempted to believe in scarcity right now. That the way things are is the only way they can be. So I’m closing my eyes and remembering...
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Julie Quiroz
- Dec 30, 2021
- 3 min
Opening Lines
"Let me sing to you now,
about how people turn into other things." Ever since my first book love when I was 18 I've chosen books ...
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Julie Quiroz
- Dec 2, 2021
- 3 min
Salsa Lessons
Wise people taught me that vision lives in our whole bodies, not just in our heads. When everything goes dark, we practice vision in our...
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Julie Quiroz
- Nov 3, 2021
- 3 min
Stories of How We Change
Our stories are sacred. Our stories are powerful. Our stories, like ourselves, are part of a longer arc that we have inherited and will...
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Julie Quiroz
- Oct 4, 2021
- 2 min
Strategy for Wholeness
What is cultural strategy? I was asked recently, by Nayantara Sen of Real Food Real Stories. After honoring the many brilliant people who...
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Julie Quiroz
- Sep 3, 2021
- 3 min
Urgent Lessons
In these past weeks I’ve searched my soul, again, for what is most important to do in the world.
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Julie Quiroz
- Aug 5, 2021
- 1 min
Starting to Understand
A giant sunflower appeared in my garden, in space carved through grass and dirt long before I arrived.
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Julie Quiroz
- Jul 9, 2021
- 1 min
Birth Detroit Says "Lead With Us"
"We were birthed out of what the community said that they wanted and that they needed. That's our roots and we will never stray from...
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Julie Quiroz
- Jun 8, 2021
- 2 min
Animating Community Solutions
I looked up the word “animate” and discovered that it means, literally, “to bring to life.” I love that. And I love that I got to play...
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Julie Quiroz
- May 10, 2021
- 2 min
Synchronicity
I’m paying attention to coincidence right now, to synchronicity, to moments when two actions happen at precisely the same time. One of...
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Julie Quiroz
- Apr 9, 2021
- 2 min
Practice & Power
Practice may be the simplest and hardest part of creating the future. I was reminded of this recently, when two beloved collaborators...
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Julie Quiroz
- Mar 10, 2021
- 2 min
All The Ingredients
Who will I invite to co-create with me in this purpose? How will this build community? How will this echo out to our children’s...
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Julie Quiroz
- Feb 7, 2021
- 2 min
COVID Love Stories
I call myself a story listener. I love to listen for a story's essence as it reveals itself in people’s words. I love to gather the...
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Julie Quiroz
- Jan 11, 2021
- 2 min
Now's the Time for Poetic Wisdom
We’ve never needed poetry more than we do now. A few years ago I wrote that poetry is about seeing, naming, and valuing “our tingles of...
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Julie Quiroz
- Dec 12, 2020
- 3 min
Stories, Memory, Balance, Life
In 2020 I lost my balance. Literally. In September, a neurologist in ER told me that I had vestibular neuritis, a severe but temporary...
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Julie Quiroz
- Nov 13, 2020
- 3 min
Embracing Conflict in 2020
2020 was a year that asked, “Who are you?” It was a year that asked who we are -- as people, parents, friends -- when everyday routines...
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Julie Quiroz
- Oct 14, 2020
- 3 min
Ancestral Wisdom in Our Work
My ancestors play an important role in my work. That wasn’t always true. It was a big leap for me to begin understanding my life in...
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Julie Quiroz
- Sep 16, 2020
- 2 min
Why 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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