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A Season of Wonder; a Season of Grief

December 23, 2022 | Tags: december holiday, Grief, loss, solstice, stardust, wonder

Not one but two This is how the heart makes a duet of wonder and grief. – Mark Nepo As the earth tilts, I am dipped in darkness again, heart […]

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Gratitude as Greeting

November 23, 2022 | Tags: gratitude, greeting, kindness, love, thanks, Thanksgiving

We did our cleaning days ago. Stocked up on groceries yesterday and began cooking last night. Found the leaves for the dining room table, which we’ve not needed since pre-pandemic […]

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What if….

June 5, 2022 | Tags: Change, Imagination, not knowing, Trusting change, uncertainty, what if

Change is in the air, within our personal lives, in our communities and nation and around the globe. We find ourselves in a land charted as “terra incognita,” where the […]

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The horizon of hope

May 6, 2022 | Tags: Change, despair, hope, hopelessness, optimism, uncertainty

“Do not depend on the hope of results,” Thomas Merton said in his letter to a young activist who was suffering from despair. Truth be told, whether in our work […]

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Witnessing the Unexpected

April 13, 2022 | Tags: justice; social witness, witness; seeing; Easter; attention;

“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in the world is to see something and tell what [they] saw in a plain way. … To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and […]

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The Alchemy of Grief

March 15, 2022 | Tags: Grief, healing, loss, pandemic, sorrow

Years ago, I was working in a stressful management job and one day, I walked into the executive vice president’s office and began to cry. He pushed a box of […]

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Love as a Verb

February 9, 2022 | Tags: Love; justice; conflict; ethic of love

We could count the ways – of love, that is. Poets have done it; philosophers and theologians too. And lovers, usually without numbers. We could categorize it and define it […]

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