If we are going to acknowledge both the freedom-seeking declaration on Independence Day and our struggle to fully realize that freedom for all people, it’s time to celebrate these holidays with new rituals that not only celebrate the past, but help…
I imagine that the latter explanations get closer to the root of the awkwardness. White-dominated United States culture masterfully avoids anything that creates discomfort of any sort – especially the discomfort of vulnerability. Any ritual requires vulnerability. We must allow ourselves…
So as you explore how you might celebrate the holiday this weekend, consider this story of the first Memorial Day and allow yourself to feel your own complicated emotions in this moment.
The need for meaning-making storytellers is more vital than ever. We need films, visual art, poetry, music, sermons and dance to help us process the stress of the times and transform it into meaningful change. We need communities who can foster…
This past year has been particularly heavy with loss. ... We will spend the rest of our lifetimes forming our personal and collective narratives around the events of this past year.
Happiness is often something that glosses over or even numbs unpleasant emotions — suffering, loss, challenge and hardship. ... Joy, on the other hand, happens amidst the discomfort of the challenge and hardship, and is held in tension with tougher experiences.…
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.
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.
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…
We ask the wrong questions. All the time. Maybe it’s the former journalist in me, but I always yearn for us to ask better questions. Lest you think I get it right all the time, I promise you I’ve learned this…
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