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Sanders not only won the Nevada Caucuses today, he won big. However that’s not what interested and encouraged me the most about them. What is most interesting is that the Nevada results bust more than one myth about the Bernie … [Continue reading] about Nevada Results Explode Myths about Sander’s candidacy
Contrary to what you might have heard, the Christ means “anointed one” and it was not Jesus’s last name. It is a consciousness that is available through all of us. Most of all it is Unconditional Love. A Love that is almost … [Continue reading] about When Christ’s Love Shows up as an Angry Jewish Man
WHAT: Office Hours with Rev. Sara WHERE: I’ll be live across platforms through Zoom videoconference. This way you can actually be in the room with me (it’s what it makes it “Office Hours”) and can ask me questions. … [Continue reading] about ANNOUNCING New Live Video Conference “Office Hours with Rev. Sara” — Join Me Live to Get through this Election Season and the News
Free will astrologer Rob Brezsny coined the word Pronoia, the opposite of paranoia, which means a belief that the universe is conspiring to shower you with blessings. One friend calls it a “prospiracy.” Whatever you call it, looking … [Continue reading] about Evidence of a Divine Conspiracy to Elect Bernie President
For over 22 years, my husband and I have lived in Southside Park Cohousing Community in some other cohousing community almost as beautiful as minedowntown Sacramento. We moved in when our children were one and two. They’re now all grown … [Continue reading] about Living, Loving (and maybe not Liking) in Community
--> The only “D” I ever got was in a class called Evidence taught by Buffalo, New York’s toughest divorce lawyer, Paul Birzon. Because I got a “D,” I remember almost nothing from the class but this: Hearsay is a form of testimony whereby … [Continue reading] about Admission against interest: Presidents’ Day Weekend in San Francisco is like Disneyland on a Wednesday
Another story changed how I saw the importance of cultivating Self Love. I read how the Dalai Lama and a group of his monks were meeting with a group of American spiritual types (I forget who). The Dalai Lama and the monks were taking … [Continue reading] about What if “self-hatred” were something we couldn’t even imagine or understand? Part III: Valentine’s Weekend Series
--> I wrote yesterday about how I’ve been experimenting with unconditional self love. It probably wasn’t out of the blue that I was able to contemplate this action of praying for self love. A few years back, I happened to catch … [Continue reading] about Madly in Love with me? Part II Valentine’s Weekend Series
Almost a year ago, I set some next steps to move my career forward. I then proceeded to procrastinate on taking those next steps for months. I had some good excuses to procrastinate. When those cleared up, I finally started asking … [Continue reading] about Won’t I be my Valentine?
As someone who spent more than a decade advocating for the rights of healthcare consumers and organized labor by working for versions of Medicare for All in Congress and the California legislature and then capped off that career by helping to … [Continue reading] about Comparison of Medicare for All to Private Insurance and to Current Medicare
--> There are infinite ways to walk from J and 23rd streets to 5th and T,which is where I live.It’s a grid.The letters run east west.And the numbers run north south.Like that.There are so many ways to go,it can be difficult to know when to … [Continue reading] about Definitely Not in Search of Chocolate on the Grid in Sacramento, California
February 8, 2028 Dear 2020 Self,Greetings from February 8, 2028 as President Stacey Abrams is running for election to her first full term of office. I thought it might be useful to know what it is like now. Obviously the 2020 … [Continue reading] about Letter from Your Future Self, in 2028 President Stacey Abrams is Rocking it