The Beloved Community at Tikkun Farm

The Beloved Community at Tikkun Farm We believe that community is the place we learn the practice of loving and being loved.

The Beloved Community at Tikkun Farm intends to be a community of companionship for pilgrims engaging in spiritual journeys.

Please join us for our summer solstice celebration. In addition to a pot luck feast, we'll make our own smudge sticks f...
06/17/2026

Please join us for our summer solstice celebration. In addition to a pot luck feast, we'll make our own smudge sticks from summer herbs. On this Longest Day we will also celebrate our first ever "Belonging Ritual" with Kelsey and Nathan as they celebrate the lives of their young sons, Elijah and Zachariah, and we joyfully welcome them into our Beloved Community family. We’ll end our evening with a drum circle.

When: Saturday, June 20th at 5pm

Where: Tikkun Farm [MAP]

What to bring: a dish to share if you’d like (not required but appreciated)

What to wear: Dress comfortably

Solstices and equinoxes are thin places in time when nature's sacred wisdom is more available to us which is why almost every ancient tradition has created festivals around them. We’re tapping into that spiritual wisdom and giving it renewed life here on the farm

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Sometimes a poem needs to be written. A member of the Beloved Community wrote this poem today, is response to the sacred...
05/28/2026

Sometimes a poem needs to be written. A member of the Beloved Community wrote this poem today, is response to the sacred encounter shared in an earlier post we had with a family who’s dog had just died after being hit by a car.

The Shovel.

Do you have a shovel
To bury our dog?
I'm in a fog;
It happened so fast
And I don't know where or how
To let him go.
I have no place
To say goodbye with grace.

Love said, let me shovel.
Here is ground,
Sacred earth
Where death and birth
Are always found.
Lay him here,
Breathe in peace.
Sit a while, let grief release
Love led you here
To take a breath,
To find new life
Even in death.

Tonight was a sacred night for the Beloved Community at Tikkun Farm. We discovered a new poet who writes her poems from ...
05/28/2026

Tonight was a sacred night for the Beloved Community at Tikkun Farm.

We discovered a new poet who writes her poems from listening to the trees. Only tonight’s poem was about what she learned by listening to the water.

We lit candles for all the places in the world that are in need of light and then we sent it there with our loving attention.

I’m so grateful for the pilgrims who gather on Wednesday nights. And for their longing to be love in the world.

Tonight, as we were wrapping up, a couple came knocking at the back door of our building, wanting to know if we had a shovel.

A person in our group recognized them because she had seen them earlier in the evening on her way to our gathering. Their dog had been hit by a car and she stopped to see if they needed any support. They were taking him to the vet and so they parted company. Strangers who met briefly over a tragedy. Only, then, there they were again asking us for a shovel.

Their dog had not survived the accident and they wanted to bury him. But they live in an apartment complex and I knew there would not be a place there that they could do that so I wondered if they wanted to bury him here at the farm. And they said yes.

So we set out to dig a grave for him with all the other creatures who made a home here and passed on.

I know it's not an accident that that Family found us tonight right as we were wrapping up.

Interestingly, as soon as I started digging my shovel found a rock, and I bent down to pick it up and discovered it wasn't a rock. It was a black and yellow box turtle. Right where we were digging a grave. And that's not an accident either.

I don't know what any of it all means right now, but I'm noticing it.

Turtles are connected to origin stories and the beginning of the world in indigenous cultures. And this creature, that's about the beginning of new life, was sitting in the place where I was digging a grave.

I'm pondering that.

And I’m pondering, too, how we can be as unrelenting in our love as the rain.

05/18/2026

So grateful for the beautiful leaders who showed up for the “JOY as Resistance & Resilience BLOCK PARTY.”

Paulette Meier, April Mann of Cincy Sing, Alice Connor with Singing Resistance led us in Song.

Brince and Mr. Make You Move from Elementz got us dancing and writing poetry about what deeply matters to us.

Shanti Launter had us drumming!

And my dear colleagues and friends Rabbi Ari Jun, Imam Ayman Soliman and Priest Rev. Mary Carson prayed for the peace of the world, each from their own tradition, reminding us of the powerful spiritual diversity in our nation, that shares so many values in common. So grateful for Deidre and Mike from EquaSion who shared their universal prayer for peace.

I feel blessed to be connected to so many beautiful people!

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7945 Elizabeth Street
Mount Healthy, OH
45231

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