Names, and an Invitation
George Floyd, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Laquan McDonald, Tamir Rice, Alton Sterling, Breonna Taylor, Freddie Gray, Rekia Boyd, Walter Scott... The names are important because there are thousands, … [Read more...]
A Slow Deep Breath
I don’t know what disgusts me more, the man in the White House presuming to have the power or authority to order houses of worship to open and meet, or houses of worship opening and meeting in the … [Read more...]
Collapse of Time
In a flash miles and years collapse, time jerks us away from the moment and whirls us back to another time and another place. A note from a childhood friend letting me know his ninety-eight year old … [Read more...]
IF…THEN
VIDEO LINK: https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYh2Dsk1Wv This may seem a bit too personal but I want you to think about, “I love you.” Go ahead, close your eyes and in the … [Read more...]
What do you miss most?
What do you miss most? Perhaps you share in the hullabaloo about hair salons. Nary a zoom call passes without someone pining away for the days of haircuts or sharing angst about when their salon … [Read more...]
Dancing with Truth or Something Else
TEXT Did you ever know something – know it in your bones? What I mean is the kind of certainty deep down where we know such things. But then, you discovered it wasn’t true? Truth. Oh, how we … [Read more...]
Resisting Powerlessness
The sun arrived on Sunday with unrestrained radiance as the wet earth raised her arms to beg for more. The next morning, cold and gray again, small green buds everywhere had inched up from their … [Read more...]
Worried about where we go from here
A wise and poetic friend of mine recently observed that in these days of social distancing the background becomes the foreground. What she meant is that the things we took for granted, overlooked, and … [Read more...]
Babies with Guns
Protesters at the state capital in Columbus, Ohio I shared this experience before, but it is especially cogent now. One of those moments nearly every parent has experienced, is wedged in the creases … [Read more...]
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