I think you are very brave to speak your truth so completely. Yes, our first care must always be for ourselves. And then, as we feel able, to care for others. This has more wisdom than all other theology. I also think it’s very true that we are activists in a wide variation of ways. […]
May 1988 – August 1990 In May 1988, I went to downtown Washington D. C. to a church basement and began doing work with women who had been tortured in the prisons of El Salvador. They are founders of Comadres, mothers and wives of the disappeared. This is when I would like my life to […]
The most sure way to get yourself into trouble is to offer to be of help. It works most of the time. It’s the kind of trouble that teaches the essences of spiritual life and cannot be replaced by reading or prayer. And the more desire you have to serve, the bigger the trouble you […]
My education on healing from trauma is an incomplete, ongoing work which I find continually fascinating and always best suited to wondering rather than collecting hard facts. There are so many parts to consider: life itself hurts; trouble must not only be survived, but learned about; the world seems to know no bounds in its […]
Feb 23 – 25 Purchase Quatr Beaver Farm Yorktown Heights NY March 8 – 9 American Massage Therapy Assoc Framingham MA March 19 Friends in need – mentoring, clients, etc Boston MA March 22-23 Kenyon College AIDS Sem/concert/wkshp Gambier OH April 5 – 7 Quaker Center Healing from Life Wounds Ben Lomond CA April 13 […]
setting down the phone and settling into prayerreaching with all my heart for the hurt onein a moment of calm and careI feel this one who I loveand know her pain going outsidescooping wet earth into a dishpush the white candles into the earthlight each one as it sits on my deska prayer for the […]
On this quiet morning I am at my desk as a bit of snow and sun mix in the sky. It’s beautiful. The wood stove is on a slow burn and the rest of the wood pile is refusing to get into the woodshed by itself. I have been going back over my 93 calendar […]
March 10 AIDS Project massage therapists Brattleboro, VT March 29 AIDS Project staff retreat and refreshing Brattleboro, VT April 23-26 Lubicon Nation, 1st Nations Res Little Buffalo, Alberta April 27-30 Vancouver Meeting, workshops Vancouver, BC May 1-2 Victoria Meeting, workshops Victoria, BC May 4-5 Seattle Meeting, workshops Seattle, WA May 19-21 Pendle Hill, Healing […]