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  Full poem here . Say these words when you lie down and when you rise up, when you go out and when you return. In times of mourning and in ...

  Is that Eric Garner worked for some time for the Parks and Rec. Horticultural Department, which means, perhaps, that with his very large h...

 

Through the window screen I can see an angle of grey roof and the silence that spreads in the branches of the pecan tree as the sun goes dow...

When I heard he had entered the harbor, and circled the wharf for days, I expected the worst: shallow water, confusion, some accident to bri...

The things to do have been done, well, for the most part. The people we need are in place, almost. We are ready, or as ready as we will be. ...

 Weird thing.  My family traveled to Umeå, Sweden a year ago for a memorial for my husband's mother. The kids, then 10 and 6, did great....

Barrett died this week. He went to see his doctor because he just wasn't feeling himself, and his heart stopped on the examining table. ...

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...