This podcast is for paid members. If you would like to join our community at 25% off the annual price for the first year, please do so here or click the link below. You will receive invites to our special guest ‘Speakeasy’ zoom forums, our weekly wellness happy hours, access to all Bette print and podcast archives, and our private community chats.
The following is an excerpt from this podcast, based on my print feature ‘Wash Our Spirits Clean’…
The desert sky is pink and subtle, muted like a faded postcard. I miss the astrophysicist, who used to tell me things about scattered light and black holes, gravitational waves and string theory. I understood little but loved the magic — a universe filled with wonder and beauty, particles colliding.
As the pink sky becomes blue black, manmade fireworks conclude for another year, and the real fireworks reveal themselves — first a scattering of stars — blink — then more — blink blink — then millions, sky sparklers, shooting through the night, an infinite tiara crowning the cosmos.
The buttery moon is big and its face bemused. I stare at it as if to never forget what it looks like in this moment. I am asked if I have a vision of heaven. I respond, “Yes… it’s this moment.”
I see heaven in moments such as these, and I don’t want to miss a single second of the wonder and beauty…
I come to the desert to wash my spirit clean…
The rain takes off her clothes… wrote the poet Pablo Neruda
As long as there is poetry, we endure.
****
Bette Dangerous is a reader-funded magazine. Thank you to all monthly, annual, and founding members. Thank you as well to all those who support my work with your generous coffee tips and who buy my ebooks. Some of you prefer making subsidizing donations via venmo, and it’s always greatly appreciated. Thanks to a generous donor, we gave away six annual memberships! If you wish to gift a membership, you can do so by donating to the ko-fi or venmo accounts, and indicate it’s for a gift, or do so here.
Also, a private link to an annual membership discount for older adults, those on fixed incomes or drawing disability, as well as activists and members of the media is available upon request at bettedangerous@gmail.com. 🥹
Save the dates: our next Bette Dangerous ‘Speakeasy’ Zoom for paid members is on Sunday, July 16, 4 pm PT. Also be on the lookout for an invite to our weekly Bette’s Happy Hour wellness checkin for Tuesday, July 11, which will be at 5 pm PT. Our July 4 checkin was incredibly special. Thank you to everyone who joined.
We just have to see that the battle for democracy is broader. It's deeper.—David Pepper
I need people to see they're on the frontline. Wherever you live, if you’re doing this work, you are the frontline.—David Pepper
Because the true force that will win democracy is all of us figuring this out and going to work. That is literally the thing. That's the majority.—David Pepper
💘
“I say a silent prayer of thanksgiving as I walk upon the earth.”-Audrey Peterman.
“May the viral hope for truth and humanity wash away the chaos of these years.”-S.C., Bette community member
“Something Sacred never dies in almost all of us, who can hear the invitation of Truth…”-words from a Bette Dangerous community member
“Nothing but blue skies from now on…”-Irving Berlin
🤍
****
Bette Dangerous is a reader-funded magazine. Thank you to all monthly, annual, and founding members. Thank you as well to all those who support my work with your generous coffee tips and who buy my ebooks. Some of you prefer making subsidizing donations via venmo, and it’s always greatly appreciated. Thanks to a generous donor, we just gave away six annual memberships! If you wish to gift a membership, you can do so by donating to the ko-fi or venmo accounts, and indicate it’s for a gift, or do so here.
Also, a private link to an annual membership discount for older adults, those on fixed incomes or drawing disability, as well as activists and members of the media is available upon request at bettedangerous@gmail.com. 🥹
Registration for our next Bette Dangerous ‘Speakeasy’ Zoom for paid members on Sunday, July 2, 4 pm PT with Martin Sheil can be found here. Also be on the lookout for an invite to our weekly Bette’s Happy Hour wellness checkin for Tuesday, July 4, which will be at noon PT. Expect fireworks!
🤍
“I say a silent prayer of thanksgiving as I walk upon the earth.”-Audrey Peterman.
“May the viral hope for truth and humanity wash away the chaos of these years.”-S.C., Bette community member
“Something Sacred never dies in almost all of us, that can hear the invitation of Truth…”-words from a Bette Dangerous community member
“Nothing but blue skies from now on…”-Irving Berlin
🤍
(Photo from my 2019 trip to Joshua Tree, which is where the Mojave and the Colorado deserts meet)
Bette Dangerous Podcast Ep47 - Wash Our Spirits Clean