The Game Board of Life This is a hazardous subject, on two levels. First, as Jeanine Cummins wore a target after writing “American Dirt,” a novel about migrants in flight from violence even though … [Read more...]
Beloved Community
Any true community event has an army of people behind it knitting things together, underneath it holding up parts that sag, and all around it picking up loose ends. So too the Martin Luther King, Jr. … [Read more...]
Follow the Chaos
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs describes what it takes for individuals and societies to thrive. Maslow described the obvious: our basic physical needs must be met before we are motivated to achieve … [Read more...]
This is not about the Bible
NOTE TO READER: This week's Denim Spirit is a redeux of last Sunday's sermon, suitable for secular publication Open the Bible and from the very first chapters we discover an argument (two competing … [Read more...]
2020, Finally!
2020. Wow! There were so many strategic plans named 2020. Colleges, school boards, hospitals, businesses, even the village of Oswego, not to mention the Association for Strategic Planning, all … [Read more...]
A Rabia Christmas
Rabia, my five-year-old Golden-Lab mix who retains the puppiness of a one-year-old, does not understand that this morning is Christmas. She does understand visitors, more food around, cardboard and … [Read more...]
‘Tis the Season
We need to rethink Christmas. It is too late to change the name, more is the pity since it sullies Jesus and Christianity with the money-changers that corrupt everything. On the other hand, Christmas … [Read more...]
Subversive Hospitality
We went to Darling’s Tree Farm to cut down a fir tree last Saturday. It’s astounding how kind and friendly the entire crew out there is, out in the cold all day as they are. Going into the barn to pay … [Read more...]
Everyone Needs a Place
It is the Saturday after Thanksgiving, or more blasphemously, the day after Black Friday. I am sitting in front of a round stone fireplace in the middle of a sunken room, its copper cone-shaped … [Read more...]
Mashed Potatoes
My Thanksgiving tomorrow is with one of my daughters. She has given me one job: mashed potatoes. Mashed potatoes are the wallflower of the party, that poor pale kid forgotten about amidst the … [Read more...]
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