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to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you’ve held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your ...

After a long numbness, I wake and suddenly I’m noticing everything, all of it piercing me with its beautiful, radical trust: the carpenter b...

Some days--dishes piled in the sink, books littering the coffee table-- are harder than others. Today, my head is packed with cockroaches, d...

Perhaps you’ve held this image in your head since you were young – the meteor blazing towards earth, the seismic shock of impact, a lethal r...

The present has arrived and you are in it. Your heart is pumping. Your breath moves in and out of your lungs without anyone's help or p...

I have been spending a lot of time lately thinking about witness, about how witness is itself a kind of poetics, or poesis, which means maki...

If we are fractured we are fractured like stars bred to shine in every direction, through any dimension, billions of years since and hence. ...

Video Heather Swan - "Rabbit" Two poems named "Water" by Michelle Otero "The Thing Is" by Ellen Bass "Wi...

  The Rev. Susan Grey @ rally on the day SCOTUS trashed Roe v. Wade: "I am furious. I am filled with holy fury at the way our lives and...

 Article II Commission Shared values What are the actions we are called to do as a result of these values? "Because I value ________, I...

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no e...

  Youtube channnel for UUA River Building Bridges Where You Go, I Will Go

 Attending virtually.  President's Report, General Assembly 2022 So far, great quote by the Rev. Susan Grey (and UUA President) :  Joy f...

Bless today your hesitancy your shy shrug your behind the scenes skepticism, your sweet stoicism. Bless your boredom and your anxieties, tho...

Revisa tu corazón Para hallar el amor en un rincón. Pero busca el amor. Ni placer ni passion. El amor lo que hace al otro bien Chorus: Busc...

Ultimate Grace, the heart of every matter, in every perfection and imperfection, in all senses and: tenses, in moments of every right and wr...

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On Seeing a Detailed Map of Old Town, Albuquerque I notice the empty space where there is no map, only theater of man and myth, where there ...

Love Transcends Love Transports Love Transforms Love Translates

On my way to the fertility clinic, I pass five dead animals. First a raccoon with all four paws to the sk...