my darlings -
Well, itās October and there is a fair amount bubbling away in the sparkle cauldron over here at Kathleen HQ these days!
Topline below, juicy details are dowwwnnn.
RITUAL next week in Santa Fe - Oct 16, $16+
MEDICINE turned 1 this week - a few musings
The Creation Retreat - Oct. 18 - 20, online/your house
After Hours: Beauty For the Soul - Thurs. Nov 14, Santa Fe, 5p - 7p
5 Things - including a choir concert in Sante Fe Oct 19 & 20 and a really cool free business training on Oct 15
A tiny note:
Sometimes I fear it can feel tone-deaf or trite to say to you āWeāll be singing some songsācome on out next weekā when so much is happening in the world at largeāhurricanes flooding war elections suffering suffering suffering you name it etc etcāAND but also, I actually know that we can only tend to our little corner of the universe, and the most good we do is done with our individual and unique magic.
If everyone picks up the trash on her little corner of the beach, then the beach gets clean!! Ya know?
Plus, we are each otherās medicine.
I have some music medicine to tend to our aches & painsāwould you like some?
xo
kathleen š¦
RITUAL: SONGS & STORIES
Weds Oct 16, 7p
Santa Fe, NM
Tickets start at $16
Less than a week away, friends!
With Earl Buck & Serena Bixby. {See last weekās newsie for details about those two incredible songwriters.}
Canāt wait to share our songs & stories with you on the evening of the full moon!
{Prices go up day of/at the door. We sold out last time a few hours before showtime, so get āem while theyāre hot!}
10% of profits from ticket sales will go to Youthworks Santa Fe, a charity dedicated to holistic and comprehensive support and training for local at-risk youth, so they can develop into active, healthy and productive participants in their communities.. You can read about their incredible work here and here.
MEDICINE TURNED ONE TWO DAYS AGO, WHAAAAAT
I wanted to write a big olā essay (you know me) about MEDICINE turning one two days ago on 10.10.24, and then I posted on Instagram just now (Friday afternoon) about it and also about RITUAL next week, and I ended up writing a little blurb that I actually really like, so Iāve repurposed it below, with a few slight tweaks.
{While I was tweaking, I started writing a giant thing, but Iām still wrestling it into submissionāI meanā¦ dancing with it into just-rightnessāso weāll save the essay-as-miniature-novel version for another time.}
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MEDICINE TURNED ONE YESTERDAY AND EVERYTHING MAKES SENSE NOW.
JUST KIDDING.
I am human--it's mostly all just mystery to me, still.
But reallyāmy sweet little baby of a pink daydream record did turn 1 on the tenth of this month, and though I knewāfor weeks, months, a year, in factāthat it was coming up, I did not, could not, did not have it in me, to drum up some whatever event or livestream or shenanigans to celebrate, but I did take the day off to treat a recently married girlfriend to a day of hot springs, and we soaked under the slowly changing yellow cottonwood leaves and ate gluten free pizza and laughed and lay around and worked on our tans for a little October minute, and after we left I splashed out on some new makeup and invited the Clinique lady {angel, really} to RITUAL next week after she tended to me and put magical paint on my face with her gentle fingers.
I drove home in the 5 o'clock sun, northeast in traffic with everyone else, listening to the new Coldplay record and chatting internally with 16 year old Kathleen who couldn't wait to get out of her small town and make something beautiful of her lifeā āgirl, do you see this life we have now???āāand what a shock and delight that even after all these years worshipping at the altar of Love and Sacred Beauty Medicine, even after all this time and all those red rose petals offered up, I am still learningāthere is still so much more to learn and love and grow intoāHOW DO I DO A SMOKEY EYE, for instanceāand you can probably tell this isn't just about makeupānothing is really ever that simple or patāhow could it be when everything is everything and we're all just cells in the body of Lifeābut Iām telling you, there really was something about the music {itās a gorgeous record, Coldplay's most recent, I mean (though MEDICINE, too, come to think of it)}āand the breeze through my car windows, after a day spent under majestic trees in the water under the sun with a girlfriend, and isn't that what MEDICINE is all about anyways?Ā
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THE CREATION RETREAT {AT HOME!}
Fri. Oct. 18 - Sun. Oct. 20
Online retreat experience!
I am thrilled to be singing & guest teaching at this yummy at-home online retreat that teacher/coach/magician Cristy Duce has created.
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Iāll be leading Creativity Breathwork in addition to serenading retreat participants with songs from MEDICINE.
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learn more.
{25% off until Oct. 15 & solidarity pricing available.}
AFTER HOURS: Beauty For The Soul
Thurs. Nov. 14, 5p
Santa Fe, NM
$0! Free!
Hosted by Cynthia Jones, Dr. Janine Mahon, and yours truly, it will be happy hour vibes plus Beauty Medicine all around.
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5 THINGS
{which is actually 7}
Timeshifter - do you know this app? If you are traveling across multiple time zones, itās a game-changer to help beat/prevent jet lag. Shawn & I used it when we went to Ireland in May, and it was RAD.
Moon Music - Coldplayās newest album
Sangre de Cristo Chorale Fall Concert - Oct 19 & 20, 4p, Santa Fe, NM. Normally Iād be singing in these, but cannot due to scheduling conflicts this time. I have to say: the repertoire is gorgeous & if you like modern choir music, get your ticket and go enjoy an afternoon of choral music medicine.
PLEASE VOTE - I will throw in a personal plug in for PLEASE VOTE FOR LOVE this election. Most places have early voting! Iām doing mine next Friday!
How to be a World-Changing Witch Amidst Apocalypse - OCT 15, 4-6p EST. Facilitated by Rachael Maddox, with Chela Davison, Nisha Moodley & Lyvia Caro. āFor World-Changing Witches with world-changing visions who are ready to RESOURCE their Soulās deepest missions.ā
ALL FOURS by Miranda July - extraordinary novel. Just really something. Iām on my third time through right now.
EARTHSIDE by Kate Bone - A 5-Week Holistic Creative Development Experience - I took The Artistās Way with Kate back inā¦2019 (?)āshe knows her sh*t when it comes to creativity and creative recovery!
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I LOVE YOU!
MAKE YOUR ART.
LOVE WHO YOU LOVE.
LOVE WHAT YOU LOVE.
WANT WHAT YOU WANT.
WE BELONG TO EACH OTHER.
WE ARE EACH OTHERāS MEDICINE.
xxxooo
Kathleen
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