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Love is calling for liberation. Love is hoarse from calling, her voice raw from the decades she has spent chanting at protests and speaking ...

Waking up is enough. Putting on shoes before you walk out on the wet leaves that plaster the driveway is enough. It is enough to love one pe...

 Sermon at First Unitarian by the Rev. Bob LaVallee 9/27/2020 Racism is not a failure of character. [It's a failure of persistent practi...

We are worthy Not because of what we produce But because of who we are We are divine bodies of light and darkness You are not worthy because...

 How have I failed to live up to my values? I see the ways I have failed. I have compassion for what I still have to learn.  I am on the pat...

 This article from the Atlantic by  Mychal Denzel Smith !!! Police Reform Is Not Enough: The moral failure of incremental change "Incre...

The woman at the Salvation Army who sorts and prices is in her eighties and she underestimates the value of everything, for which I am grate...

My friend and I snickered the first time we heard the meditation teacher, a grown man, call himself honey, with a hand placed over his heart...

Prayer doesn't change things; prayer changes people, and people change things. - Adapted from quotes by Mother Theresa / Joyce Meyer

I want to believe we can’t see anything we don’t have a word for. When I look out the window and say green, I mean sea green, I mean moss gr...

Berkeley psychologists told Harold his anger was justified. What parents let their child go for a midnight walk under no moon? I couldn’t ha...

The night Max wore his wolf suit made him infamous, bred the child star never sent to bed. Middle school, Max started drinking. Not in my ho...

If you’re a bird or soul      I am only one mile from the sea. If you      are a soul in two bodies life is more complex      and we mus...

After I turned forty, I received my first 42 millirem dose of X-rays. I heated the machine with my uncupped body, tabled my rib cage to cool...

I really do wish I did. Because if I loved lawnmowers I could go to the lawnmower museum I just heard about on the radio in a piece about sm...

The students know the agenda. When I step inside our classroom, the PowerPoint is loaded, the student presenting her report stands poised to...

Having loved enough and lost enough, I am no longer searching, just opening. No longer trying to make sense of pain, but trying to be a soft...

"Life pulls things out of you... You have within you more ... strength than has ever been tested, more to give than you have ever given...

nightfall I sink into dishwash meditation steaming china prayer wheels crystalline bells of the lost horizon crockery mandalas chanting din ...

for Kellie Jones, born 16 May 1959 Lately, I've become accustomed to the way The ground opens up and envelopes me Each time I go out to ...