New Year’s wishes of ease and grace to you! A few days ago, on the cusp of our collective leap out into 2021, I shared some of The Only Prayers You Really Ever Need: Help Thanks Wow Sorry Mmmmmm F*^#$@!!!!!&?cK! These are non-denominational prayers, of course. Prayers suited to the particular sensibilities of my fellow …
I’ve been trying to come up with something meaningful to share with you at the close of this deeply disturbing 2020 and the rise of a hopeful new year. Yet I’ve found myself quite silent. However I want to be in some kind of useful touch, my friend. So I figured prayers would be just …
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I was scanning the news a while back, reading sound bytes from voters, explaining their support of Donald Trump. I was especially interested in one from a woman who shared that she supported Trump because she found him to be a “strong leader.” A strong leader. A strong leader?!? A series of lights went on …
Here in the United States where I’m writing from, it is almost Thanksgiving. It’s a holiday that is ideally about giving thanks. And about gathering with folks you love, to give thanks with. However, because it’s an American holiday, and we love to mark our holidays by ingesting massive amounts of food and sweets, it …
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I’m getting old. As the mirror, endless Zoom video conferences, and my 9-year old son all like to remind me. I’m going to turn 48 in a few weeks. And even though the life expectancy in my family is around 88, I’m still on the older side of middle age. But must “old” be the …
the good news in a bad breakup … i don’t mean this in the “every cloud has a silver lining” way. a bad breakup leaves us in a really dark place. which feels bad. and wrong. and like we’ve done something wrong. but even so, inside all that intensity is some really good news. about …
Will you join me? Here’s what I mean …. on this Friday June 19 let’s put our dollars consciously into Black (and Indiginous and People of Color) communities. Juneteenth, June 19 (which this year falls on a Friday) is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States, when news …
I know you care. I know you want to help. Here’s how. (Please read this to the end). “Meet anguish with action.” ~ President Barack Obama I am shocked, shaky. Anguished. And I know I’m feeling only a tiny fraction of what non-white, especially Black folks are feeling. Wobbly though I may feel, I stand. …
“I don’t trust anyone whose eyes have not been opened by The Dark.” That is a quote from my friend/sister/colleague Vera de Chalambert, from a recent interview I had with her on the wisdom of the dark times we go through and the brokenness we carry. I’m guessing you are dedicated to being ever-more conscious, …
