brontë velez
meditations on resanctifying stamina; on sheep & the prophetic tradition; theologizing and practicing "guard the animal. guard the tangible. god's the animal. god's the tangible in you" (esperanza spalding).
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when i tell my niece god is a mystery (opens the original)
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my mosey was uneventful today. i remember that most of the phenomenology of miracles is booooooorrrrring. when you sit there long enough, time bores a hole in you. the hole dilates your presence. the third eye yawns awake and then all of a sudden its “never ran this hard through the valley / never ate so many stars” (jean valentine, door in the mountain). but no chomping down on stars today. just fucking mosquitos.i mean i thought i had a story when i turned onto riddle road for the american tob
the prophetic is piercing (opens the original)
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Let us pray,May we quiet ourselves before the Great Mystery who still speaks through burning bushes, through trembling ground, through the breath of creation.May the Holy Spirit’s presence in the earth encourage us to become truthful witnesses to God’s revelation.Amen and Asé.Today, we’re gonna wander the wilderness with the prophet Amos, the shepherd and dresser of sycamore trees who Creator “took from following his flock” and said to him “Go
mosey • 2 • august 21st, 2026 (opens the original)
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the eno is giving chocolate willy wonka river. i want to make a black willy wonka movie based in atlanta so bad! we make the movie in the sweetest way possible. three stacks plays wonka and composes the music. paul tazewell does costumes. lakeith stanfield has to be in it. wait, he would be fire as wonka too... or maybe he plays younger willy wonka and shows up for flashbacks. andre or lakeith performing the wondrous boat ride song down the chattahootchee would be BEYOND.<a class="image-link ima
mosey • 1 • august 20th, 2026 (opens the original)
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i am in a 52 day practice starting today of moseying as a way to care for my wander and my wonder and my writing. i go mosey wherever i am and then mosey with my writing about the moseying. mosey is such a cute word and also hinting at the whimsy i want with my prophetic awareness, maybe what rev. pauli murray meant when they wrote about being “pixie-prophetic.” mosey is so moses-coded too. like verbing the activity of Moses’s prophetic attention where Moses knew presence was the prophetic task.
your crucial link with the eternal (opens the original)
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