Karen Stuth Writer, Publisher, Book Consultant

06/17/2026

Does your friendship and relationship with yourself matter most?

06/09/2026

Dreams are messengers, delivering the missives of our soul.

06/05/2026

After my husband died many years ago, I took the trail up to the reservoirs above our town and spent nearly the whole day wandering the trails that criss-cross the mountains up there. I remember that day well, finding the rhythm of nature and the gifts of rock, feather, and earth to be more soothing and nurturing than anything else. I still have the speckled stone I found that day, and recall how solid and cool it felt in my hand. I always hope to find a 'speckled stone' on my path, and hope that for each of you.

06/03/2026

Wisdom is both deep and wide and reaches for the heavens.

05/26/2026

Where will your dreams take you today?

05/25/2026

05/24/2026

I so recall the day I wrote this poem. It resulted from a conversation with a friend who insisted that if you can't see or feel it, it isn't there. This was my attempt to explain to her what faith and trust means to me. What does it mean to you?

Here is the poem in its entirety:

Faith and Trust

Shall we pray for rain
or follow the woman
who carries an umbrella
on a bright and sunny day
is this foolhardiness
or a surefooted knowing
in the cardinal nature
of existence

Will you throw a handful of seeds
onto a concrete driveway
rooted in your belief that some will sprout
in unseen cracks
watered and nurtured by their potential
because you know with unerring instinct
that life will always find its way

Would you give a homeless man your last dollar
because your empty wallet
now has room for crisp new bills
do you comprehend
that what is meant for each of us
will always be supplied
that your faith and trust will move mountains
even though faith and trust
are not really the same

Trust is reliance on proof-based conviction
what we see, hear, smell, touch
what is based on our actual sensory experiences
that our brakes will stop our car
that the sun will rise tomorrow
that gravity will hold us to the earth
our ingrained reliance on the known
that is trust
yet that is not faith

Faith is the full surrender of trust
the absence of the known
acceptance of the unknown
and the unproven
abandoning our skepticism
suspending our need for the concrete
our arms laid down in search of inner peace
an amorphous belief in the extraordinary
and the unproveable

What if you suspended your disbelief
so that faith could enter
taking up residence
in your citadel of doubt
not a sweater you wear for a season but a second skin
something inseparable from your essential nature
a solid assurance in those things wholly unseen
yet very much alive
and forever inside

Copyright 2021, Karen Stuth and Satiama Publishing

05/20/2026

The most devastating thing we can do is believe there is only one truth, one way, one right.
There isn’t.
And when we can live and love from every corner of this universe, and find the beauty in it - that’s a win.
We don’t have to agree, that is our birthright, and that is why we have diversity- your truth is not my truth - but to deny someone else’s beliefs and values is ignorance.
Open your heart, open your eyes, use your mind.
When you practice location, (finding even the smallest, sweet thing in an unsavory situation - person, place or thing-)… that’s mastery.
-debbie lynn

Art – Sarah Jarret Collage

“It’s not about getting it -
It’s about letting it.”
-Steven Wilson

05/15/2026

It's fun to take a trip down memory land and to revisit so many books that I edited first as the writer's mentor, and then later we decided to take them into our publishing catalog. These three books are small but absolutely stunning in their depth and beautiful message.