Singer/songwriter/educator Sarina Partridge joins me in a conversation about the tedious path of following a calling.
Sarina went from wacky math teacher in Minnesota, to a world-traveling song leader who uses harmony circles as a way to build community as well as to resist conditioned impulses to "disappear the self."
She encountered setbacks so great that she even thought the dream of singing had passed, but everything changed when a neighbor asked Sarina to use her gifts for leading songs during the dreary early days of the pandemic. Learn more about Sarina here.
4:00 Mature adults can have artistic hobbies?
7:00 Singing in service of community building
9:00 Attachment to career identity rather than one's calling
15:00 Disappearing the self
20:00 When the question becomes the calling
33:00 Near-death experience clarifying the passion
37:00 The white martyr archetype
39:00 The unknown and challenging might just be your purpose
41:00 The lift-off point for Sarina's calling
45:00 Hymnaculate Contraception
48:00 I both matter more and less than I thought
51:00 The power of encouragement
Note: The recorded singing and conversation at the beginning and end of the episode came from Sarina's annual Solstice Song Circle. You can learn more about her events and find ways to join up at her website: https://sarinapartridge.com/
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