Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior
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We Are Source in Disguise:
Imagine a single, boundless Light refracting through an infinite prism. Each color looks distinct, each beam appears separate, yet every ray is still the same Light. This is the heart of the teaching: we all come from one energy, one Source, wearing countless forms to explore itself.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior4 months ago in Humans
Look Up
The corner diner was always a little too bright for its age, the chrome stool legs polished by a thousand fidgety knees, the neon sign in the window humming like it had a secret. Sweet tea flowed from the spigot like a slow river, catching sun in the glass, and Cindy set down another sweating mason jar with a flick of her wrist.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior4 months ago in Fiction
Dark Candles
The candles were the good kind, thick beeswax pillars that smelled faintly of summer. I lit three on the kitchen table and said, “I know, overkill. But the room’s cold and you always said fire makes a house feel like it remembers.”
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior4 months ago in Fiction
Cooking With Demons
I was trying to make eggplant parm and accidentally summoned a demon. In my defense, the recipe was handwritten in a thrift-store cookbook titled Nonna’s Country Grimoire and Comfort Foods, and under “marinara” it said, in curly script, “For bright sauce, invoke heat and salt to hasten.” I read it out loud because some of us have to narrate our lives to keep from spiraling, and somewhere between “hasten” and “heat,” my smoke alarm coughed in Latin.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior4 months ago in Fiction
January 6: A Permission Slip
Pardoning January 6 wasn’t mercy. It was a permission slip. President Trump has now pardoned those convicted or charged for the January 6 attack. The consequences are immediate and profound. This is not a hypothetical; it is a rupture ... one that reshapes incentives for political violence, scrambles law-enforcement priorities, and intensifies fault lines inside the Democratic Party.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior4 months ago in Humans
Trump's Trope of The Enemy Within Is Projection
Donald Trump has a tell. When he says someone else is corrupt, disloyal, lawless, or dangerous, he’s often describing his own conduct—and the conduct he encourages in his movement. Psychologists call it projection: attributing to others the impulses we can’t acknowledge in ourselves. In politics, projection is more than a personality tic. It’s a strategy that inverts reality, floods the zone with accusation, and numbs the public to genuine threats.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior4 months ago in Humans
I Learned the Truth
I didn’t learn the truth at seventeen. Janis Ian sang it like a weather report, but mine arrived a decade early. I learned it at seven, in the narrow hours after dinner, when the house held its breath: that I was visible only when someone needed a target or a mirror. I learned that a small person could be the wick for a larger flame. I learned that no one was coming. The one who would get me through would be me.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior4 months ago in Fiction
Micah
The first time I saw Micah, he was talking to a pigeon. “I’m not saying you’re wrong,” he told it, standing under the bus shelter awning while the rain came down in sheets, “I’m just saying the croissant is not gluten-free.”
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior4 months ago in Fiction
Obligation of Military Officers to Resist Authoritarianism
Introduction Military officers have a unique moral responsibility that comes from their position to serve and protect both their country and its citizens. When authoritarian leaders rise to power, officers may face an ethical dilemma: remain loyal to their leaders or uphold the ideals of justice and freedom.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior4 months ago in History
