Anticipation- March 2025
Anniversaries to Celebrate, Spring Anticipation, writing update & so much more
THANK YOU!! Happy anniversary to us! With this issue, we’re celebrating the second anniversary of my newsletter on Substack. I’ve offered newsletters in several formats over many years, but Substack has truly given us a great way to connect. I’m so honored that you read my work.
THANK YOU!! March is a big anniversary month in other ways and I’m grateful for your support. The same month I launched this newsletter in 2023, Salvation South published my creative non-fiction work, “A Talisman from Poseidon.” Last year, on the newsletter’s first anniversary, Salvation South published my essay, “The Coyote’s Journey.” Click on the links below to read these works and others.
THANK YOU! PsychicTeachers Podcast, which I cohost weekly with Samantha Fey, celebrates 15 years on-air this month, with more than 6,750,000 downloads! That number took my breath away when we checked stats in preparation for the anniversary episode, which airs beginning Sunday, March 9.
AND March is International Women’s History Month, with March 8 designated as International Women’s Day.
I’m so happy to connect with you and I’m grateful that you subscribe to this newsletter! If you missed my last newsletter, you can read it here.
The Path to Find Yourself-February 2025
Anticipation
March is when I begin to hope that Charlie, our resident Great Blue Heron, will return to stand sentinel over our side of the marsh. As spring approaches, his squawk as he lands on my neighbor’s dock is beautiful music!
So are the lyrics to “Follow the Heron,” a lovely song by Scottish singer Karine Polwart. Here’s the first verse and chorus:
The back of the winter is broken
And light lingers long by the door
The seeds of the summer have spoken
In gowans that bloom on the shoreBy night and day we’ll sport and we’ll play
And delight as the dawn dances over the bay
Sleep blows the breath of the morning away
And we follow the heron home
Here’s a link to the song: Follow the Heron
Why I Haven’t Been Publishing Recently
I’m co-writing a play! We’ve finished the first draft and are editing. We plan a table read soon. What a learning curve!
I’m working on a poetry collection.
I’ve seen (and love) the cover art of the book I’m co-writing, and have finished proofing the galleys. The book will be released in autumn. It’s beautiful and I can’t wait to be able to tell you more about it.
I’m working on an environmental essay.
I’ve been granted a retreat at writer-in-residency program in April, and will tell you more about that as plans solidify. I’m so honored and excited!
My “The Path To Yourself” course is full – thank you! I’m so grateful to all of you who have chosen to work with me!
And there’s more coming…..
Click on the links below to read my most recent works in Salvation South:
“A Tale of Two Hauntings”
https://www.salvationsouth.com/a-tale-of-two-hauntings-essay-deb-bowen/
“Let No One Turn You Around”
https://www.salvationsouth.com/let-no-one-turn-you-around-joan-baez-essay-deb-bowen/
“Sunday Fatback”
https://www.salvationsouth.com/sunday-fatback-essay-deb-bowen/
“The Coyote’s Journey”
https://www.salvationsouth.com/the-coyotes-journey-nature-essay-deb-bowen/
“Takin’ Up a Poundin’”
https://www.salvationsouth.com/takin-up-a-poundin-christmas-story-deb-bowen/
“Tidal Wave Terror”
https://www.salvationsouth.com/ground-truth-from-the-climate-reckoning-janisse-ray/
“Where I’m From: Seven Decades in Seven Scenes”
https://www.salvationsouth.com/where-im-from-seven-decades-in-seven-scenes-deb-bowen-poem/
“Mending Nets”
https://www.salvationsouth.com/mending-nets-north-carolina-barrier-island/?mc_cid=c4bb217ffc&mc_eid=fae2a9a622
“A Talisman for Poseidon”
https://www.salvationsouth.com/a-talisman-from-poseidon-hurricane-donna-1960/
Podcasts
Psychic Teachers
I’m so excited that many of you are listening to BOTH of my podcasts! PsychicTeachers will soon celebrate its 15th year on-air!
Real Deal Divas
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Deb Bowen, Author
PsychicTeachers
Real Deal Divas
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Just One More Thing Before You Go
“Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate, and their pack. They are experienced in adapting to constantly changing circumstances; they are fiercely stalwart and very brave.”
-Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run with The Wolves
Thank you!
Such amazing good news & a bounty of things to come. A play! A book of poetry! A podcast anniversary! You're incredible.
Deb, I so appreciate your steady grounded approach to all you bring to us! You create so many different kinds of deeply meaningful work, consistently bringing love, joy, hope and so much more to so many.