kathy escobar
@kathyescobar.bsky.social
community cultivator, change catalyzer, writer, advocate, pastor, dreamer. #keeppracticing #faithshift #communityheals #griefhasnorules #healthierhumaning
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kathy escobar
@kathyescobar.bsky.social
· Jan 11
okay, friends, i was never a good twitter-er, barely used once it was X, and now can't stomach it at all. but i am feeling a little nostalgia at all those years. now, new to bluesky and we'll see how it goes. never a great post-er, but i love to connect with folks and learn good things out here.
i haven’t written anything in a while, but this july 4th i can’t help thinking of this sculpture at the aurora highlands art park and how Lady Liberty Laments so i wrote a little piece my heart needed to remember today. ❤️🩹 read the whole post here: kathyescobar.substack.com/p/lady-liber...
July 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
i haven’t written anything in a while, but this july 4th i can’t help thinking of this sculpture at the aurora highlands art park and how Lady Liberty Laments so i wrote a little piece my heart needed to remember today. ❤️🩹 read the whole post here: kathyescobar.substack.com/p/lady-liber...
a few thoughts on my 58th (!) birthday today...
Chatty Kathy Who Wanted to Save the Whales
We’ve come a long way, baby, and we’re not stopping here.
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May 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
a few thoughts on my 58th (!) birthday today...
"Wherever you’re at this dumb strange holiday weekend or in this weird chaotic cruel season of America’s current story, here’s to metabolizing our grief…" #mothersday #griefhasnorules
Metabolizing Grief
“The sum of the processes by which grief is handled in the living body.”
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May 11, 2025 at 5:40 AM
"Wherever you’re at this dumb strange holiday weekend or in this weird chaotic cruel season of America’s current story, here’s to metabolizing our grief…" #mothersday #griefhasnorules
always making a pitch for "small is plenty” kathyescobar.substack.com/p/small-is-p...
Small is Plenty
We need to stop measuring ourselves, our efforts, our work, our communities by bigger is better.
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May 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
always making a pitch for "small is plenty” kathyescobar.substack.com/p/small-is-p...
holding our cold & broken hallelujahs with our thankful unashamed ones…
A Cold and Broken Hallelujah.
Easter us.
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April 21, 2025 at 4:21 AM
holding our cold & broken hallelujahs with our thankful unashamed ones…
i know it’s already holy saturday but for some of us we’re still catching up after a full week. these videos were made before january 20th but couldn’t help thinking about where we are now in a more illuminated way...
April 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
i know it’s already holy saturday but for some of us we’re still catching up after a full week. these videos were made before january 20th but couldn’t help thinking about where we are now in a more illuminated way...
here we go, the last week of turning over tables…
@kathyescobar.bsky.social & Session Six – Holy Week: youtu.be/bHp0t58WTbo
The entire playlist can be viewed here: bit.ly/41SIwMp
#reveal #lent #lentendevotional #healingcommunity #socialaction #creativecollaboration #communityheals #turningovertables #disruptingpower #keeppracticing
The entire playlist can be viewed here: bit.ly/41SIwMp
#reveal #lent #lentendevotional #healingcommunity #socialaction #creativecollaboration #communityheals #turningovertables #disruptingpower #keeppracticing
April 15, 2025 at 5:51 AM
here we go, the last week of turning over tables…
on a different palms and different power this palm sunday….
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April 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
on a different palms and different power this palm sunday….
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a little 3 minute substack video experiment centered on one of my favorite words—cultivate—which is the theme of week 5 of #turning over tables…here’s to more with, wisdom & webs right now… @wjkbooks.com
Cultivate (a very short video)
fostering the growth of more with, wisdom and webs
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April 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
a little 3 minute substack video experiment centered on one of my favorite words—cultivate—which is the theme of week 5 of #turning over tables…here’s to more with, wisdom & webs right now… @wjkbooks.com
with hope for a mass movement of moral courage...
Good Trouble
#keeppracticing
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April 4, 2025 at 12:25 PM
with hope for a mass movement of moral courage...
this has been a prevailing feeling since 2016 but this signal nonsense pushed me over the edge this week…up on substack today: kathyescobar.substack.com/p/the-great-...
March 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
this has been a prevailing feeling since 2016 but this signal nonsense pushed me over the edge this week…up on substack today: kathyescobar.substack.com/p/the-great-...
"Yeah, the lament is likely coming easy right now. But let’s keep living, too, breathing in all the good we can. We need to last…."
Lamenting, Living, Lasting
In the middle of it all, there’s life to breathe in.
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March 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"Yeah, the lament is likely coming easy right now. But let’s keep living, too, breathing in all the good we can. We need to last…."
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” —James Baldwin
All the Supremacies
May we keep letting new truths be revealed and face these hard things together.
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March 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” —James Baldwin
wow, this made me smile today :) so grateful for the many women’s voices who have shaped and formed me and keep us moving into a better future...#keeppracticing
Women’s History Month is a time to honor the incredible contributions of women, and we're celebrating the powerful voices of women authors who have shaped reading, challenged perspectives, and inspired others through their words.
Learn More: bit.ly/3DAemUJ
#WHM #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenAuthors
Learn More: bit.ly/3DAemUJ
#WHM #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenAuthors
March 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
wow, this made me smile today :) so grateful for the many women’s voices who have shaped and formed me and keep us moving into a better future...#keeppracticing
this destructive "flood the zone” we’re experiencing is tough and we can’t keep up with it all, but this one from @nytimes.com caught my eye and feels extra important to pause, read, and highlight…painful, awful, wrong, disturbing, and yep, all part of the plan.
March 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
this destructive "flood the zone” we’re experiencing is tough and we can’t keep up with it all, but this one from @nytimes.com caught my eye and feels extra important to pause, read, and highlight…painful, awful, wrong, disturbing, and yep, all part of the plan.
yep, it’s personal. it’s our family, kids, parents, friends, neighbors, co-workers, people we love...
It’s Personal.
It’s our family, kids, parents, friends, neighbors, co-workers, people we love.
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March 2, 2025 at 12:21 AM
yep, it’s personal. it’s our family, kids, parents, friends, neighbors, co-workers, people we love...
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As we prepare for #AshWednesday next week, a prayer for your Lenten journey from Turning Over Tables: A Lenten Call for Disrupting Power, by @kathyescobar.bsky.social. Learn more: bit.ly/3DlsjFJ
February 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
As we prepare for #AshWednesday next week, a prayer for your Lenten journey from Turning Over Tables: A Lenten Call for Disrupting Power, by @kathyescobar.bsky.social. Learn more: bit.ly/3DlsjFJ
"our hearts are supposed to hurt when we see unhealthy power harming others”…wondering how your hearts are in all this chaos?
Pericardiums
Our hearts are supposed to hurt when we see unhealthy power harming others.
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February 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"our hearts are supposed to hurt when we see unhealthy power harming others”…wondering how your hearts are in all this chaos?
being rooted & resourced is everything right now, and there's a lot we can learn from the redwoods to help...
Be Like the Redwoods
I love everything about trees.
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February 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
being rooted & resourced is everything right now, and there's a lot we can learn from the redwoods to help...
i saw my mom last night (she's 85 and awesome, so grateful that she also shares the same sentiments about everything happening right now). she told me as she was reading that she was chuckling, "yep, she's maddddd!"). and yep, i am! let's talk "anti-christian"
Let's Talk "Anti-Christian"
How many red flags can we fly at once?
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February 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
i saw my mom last night (she's 85 and awesome, so grateful that she also shares the same sentiments about everything happening right now). she told me as she was reading that she was chuckling, "yep, she's maddddd!"). and yep, i am! let's talk "anti-christian"
goodness gracious, these last 14 days have been a sh*t show that harms so many. definitely need these reminders for myself right now...
Weepy, Wobbly, and We Are Not Powerless
Stay human. Stay tender. Stay clear. Stay healthy. Stay together.
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February 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
goodness gracious, these last 14 days have been a sh*t show that harms so many. definitely need these reminders for myself right now...
Goddamage can be extremely clarifying, and we need to be as clear-eyed as we are able to be right now...up on substack today.
Goddamage Can Be Clarifying
Choosing who and how we want to be is in our power
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January 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Goddamage can be extremely clarifying, and we need to be as clear-eyed as we are able to be right now...up on substack today.
finally had a little pocket of time to get out some of what i'm thinking and feeling these past 4 awful horrible days... kathyescobar.substack.com/p/and-4-awfu...
January 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
finally had a little pocket of time to get out some of what i'm thinking and feeling these past 4 awful horrible days... kathyescobar.substack.com/p/and-4-awfu...
power's not like pie, people! first substack today...
3 Things about One Word: POWER
a 5 minute read
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January 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
power's not like pie, people! first substack today...