About
Jude brings her passion for poetry from her roots in Brazil where she spent most of her childhood. She has spent her life developing her spirituality which culminated in getting her Masters Degree from Naropa University where she majored in Creation Spirituality with a minor in Sacred Cinema. She spends part-time in Colorado and the rest in California. She founded Colorado’s Performance Poetry Annual Festival called SPARROWS which ran from 1999 to 2007. She has a video poetry channel where she performs her poetry, talks about her memoir and offers writing instructive videos that are an expression of her 20 years teaching writing workshops. She has two sons and 3 stepsons as well as 8 grand children all of whom she adores. Her mother still lives on her own in Maine and will soon celebrate her 98th birthday. She has taught creative writing for 20 years from Maine to Mexico. Her goal is to bring love and consciousness to our world. One of the best ways she sees to bring that about is to help each person to live and give their authentic selves as gifts to All.
Performance Poetry Videos
Offerings
One on One Coaching
$60.00 for a 45 min. consultation , no commitment..(Sliding scale available.) Other options available.
Guest Speaker/ Workshop combination
My workshops and performances open audiences to creativity in business, writing, art, personal enrichment and much more. Please email me for details.
Testimonials
For current reviews, or to leave your own review, please visit Stained Glass A Reflection (Memoir) on Amazon
A life reflected in a mosaic of color, lit from within.
Five stars for the vulnerability, and bravery it takes to capture a life in eighteen chapters. Five stars for the courage it takes to make sense of our life’s patterns.
Kalush traces the origins of her inclinations and passions which are rooted in the wounds of mistrust and childhood desertion. The aching yearning for family and home is palpable in these pages which seek to source the flame of divinity, moments where profound sorrow gave way to radical hope.
The story is most alive in the jungles of Brazil... [Read Full Review on Amazon]
Kierstin Bridger, MFA
Award Winning Writter and Poet
A touching first-person account of growing up as a missionary kid with consequences for adulthood
Jude was the eldest of five children in a Baptist missionary family which served in Northern Brazil in the 1950s and 1960s. From early childhood in rural Maine, to the interior of Brazil, to boarding school, and from there back to the US, more boarding school, then college, marriage and family life in the Colorado Rockies. We live through the struggles with boarding schools, college, marriage, wagered hardships abounded, with little or no respite. This is a touch story, often sad, that finds resonance in the experiences of many other MKs in the feelings of abandonment and even desperation.
Timothy Mulholland
Former President - University of Brasilia
I Loved it!
I had to keep reading because I could not put it down. Emersed within the pages of this book there is a certain something that happens causing every human emotion to be extracted from you. Thank you for creating such a magnificent masterpiece.
By Betty Fick
Superb Psychicr
Stained Glass...has a light from within.
What a pleasant surprise. Excellent book...so far. I'm a slow reader. Tactile. Good to hold, well bound beauty of a book, nice typeset...an easy enjoyable read. It flows. Jude's prose is poetry. But not pretentious. Of the small sampling I know of her writing...this is my favorite.
James S. Ford
Contact
Please contact me by email at judiful2@gmail.com