One of my biggest lessons of 2020 is that our basic responsibilities in our roles as citizens, as family members, as people of faith, as artists and creatives, as activists, extend well beyond what we thought it meant. We have to…
I had to work much harder at giving myself grace than my colleague did in giving it to me.
But, I’m going to tell you a hard truth because I love you: Turning the calendar into New Year 2021 is not going to magically change or make things better. Life is just hard.
This Christmas of 2020 with its “normal” rituals turned upside down may be the perfect invitation to feel into and learn more clearly the infuriating complexity of living out perfect love in an intensely imperfect world.
Peace is always available, perhaps even more available because of the chaos.
I wonder if we can feel the darkness of pandemic and social unrest not as scary and bleak, but as a dark, blank backdrop for the simple, persistent light of hope.
Stop. Be grateful for the moment and the opportunity it presents. Then ask a question.
Ritual is something old, something new, something borrowed, something you. The old You that remembers; the new You that hopes; the borrowed You that gives much to others; and the You that pioneers into tomorrow.
So, even if we felt a release initially from stress as we get nearer and nearer to certifying this contentious election, there are two things to remember: 1.) That stress we experienced has now shifted to about 70 million people who…
The minor aches in my feet and numbness in my hands connected me to those ancestors who fought injustice so that I could vote. They had no idea who or what I would be in the year 2020. They knew only…
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