A few thoughts on dealing with on-going pain and fatigue- Most people have some association, memory, or image that is a comfort and connects us to a calmer better time. It can be a gymnastic trick of the mind to make a quiet space in the day and bring in this idea with a deliberate […]
I just want to thank God and all her helpers. Even though I turn 50 next month, I just got back from the dentist and will make a half century without a cavity, indeed no more than cleaning, ever. I am extremely grateful. Extremely. Thinking about the all the messages on racism and language, I […]
Governor Howard DeanState Capitol BuildingState St.Montpelier, VT Dear Howard, March 1, 2002 Sorry to bother you. I know you are busy. I […]
Marshall and I have just read a very wonderful book we’d like you all to know about. The Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me is the new first novel of our dear friend Suzanne Kingsbury just out by Scribner. It is a story of true love of young adults, race, coming of age and unfolding into […]
It is time to lock up the children. Once again, to keep them safe and at home, we must lock them up. I didn’t think the time would come so soon again but here is it. There is a bill before congress to reinstate the draft. Every late teenage boy will be in danger of […]
Happy Solstice everybody. Hope this finds us all cozy with what we need. I know there are these moments of contentment, calm, and peace that seem to get surrounded by noise, pain, and confusion. I find myself hoping, as I do so often in prayers, that everyone in pain, everyone having a hard time getting […]
Late night Thanksgiving eve and the frosty air is chilling the moonlit night. Marshall and John Meyer are hard at work in the kitchen making pumpkin and apple pies for tomorrow, having already pickled onions, braised cabbage, sauced cranberries, and butterflied and brined a huge turkey. I’ve set a table for six over huge plywood […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]