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I’m Jeannie Rose Barksdale — writer, spiritual director, & retreat leader based in Washington, DC. My work circles around a simple question: how do we encounter the glorious and divine in the tangible elements of everyday life?
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I’m a mother of three, an attorney by day, and someone who has learned to find wonder in the midst of Zoom meetings and email, wiping food off the floor and washing dishes. I created Tangible as a space for “orphaned believers and skeptical dreamers” to find nourishment and community.
I’m a mom of three, an attorney by day, and someone who has learned to find wonder in the midst of Zoom meetings and email, wiping food off the floor and washing dishes. I created my blog Tangible as a space to offer nourishment and community to “orphaned believers and skeptical dreamers,” in the words of Over the Rhine.
I provide spiritual direction, host retreats and other contemplative experiences, facilitate workshops—and this work with people in tender spaces informs my thinking and the writing that flows from it.
When I’m not writing or baking bread, you’ll find me walking the trails of Rock Creek Park or hosting friends around our table. I live with my husband Nate and our three children in our 16-foot-wide DC home—the English basement of which has become Rock Creek Sanctuary, our micro retreat space.
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Reflections on encountering the sacred in the ordinary