Marshall and I have used husband since before we were married, we met in 86. Yes, you get to use the words you like as culture is changing around this and you get to teach people, like it or lump it. Mostly, I find myself saying this as a normal use of terms and then […]
Today one of our great old Quaker ladies in the neighborhood celebrated turning 80. Today one of our great older gents told me he had stage 4 cancer and didn’t know what to expect. Today another great old Quaker lady in the neighborhood near 90 is deciding about whether to stop driving. Each is in […]
The spiritual consequences of secrets are sudden potholes in integrity, surprises, and struggles to keep a secret hidden rather than open and exposed to wonder- wonder being the most basic posture of spiritual life. Always, certain people will choose to be with something so challenging, to wash and heal the culture and individuals. And knowing […]
Yesterday in the radiology lab waiting room, there was man tapping his foot and bouncing his knee. I could see he was afraid, probably afraid of getting his x-ray and what he would find out about illness. I was waiting for my turn and reading some things I put in my calendar – Walt Whitman, […]
So sorry to hear of this pain. I think you express so clearly the pieces that many of us find in our own lives as we move from being the children of our own parents to their caretakers with the special twist that our love is obstructed by their limits and by our dual feeling […]
So, there I was with the acupuncturist putting two needles into my belly and I was telling him to bypass the Ben & Jerry’s I had after lunch and that’s when the moose went by the window- a big young moose, just walking along the lawn, heading for the garden in back of the holistic […]
Happy Solstice, everyone! It’s a beautiful summers day here in southern Vermont. The hayfield through the pinewoods to our west has the rumble of an old tractor getting ready to bale. I told Marshall it would be good for our bodies to go help the neighbors bring in a few loads of hay. So far, […]
Marshall and I didn’t get married in P-Town last weekend. Turns out, we’d need blood tests, then fill out a form of intent, and then wait 3 days to wed or get a court order to speed things up. Instead, we sat outside town hall and cheered with a few hundred others each time a […]
I just want to say how angry and sad I am to give tax $ to this U.S. Government. I grieve what it will buy. Being low income is not enough for me. Below is a song Pete Seeger wrote on the topic some years ago. Love, John The Calendar by Pete Seeger May May […]
I just want to acknowledge the story that Scott Simon had on Weekend Edition Saturday on national Public Radio. You might remember there was a terrible story of human apathy back in the 60’s of a young woman attacked on a street corner in NYC. She called for help for a long time and no […]