As I watch Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee today, I am holding her and all other women who have ever struggled to come forward and tell their stories in love and compassion. She is so credible. She … [Continue reading] about Holding Dr. Ford and the Country in Love and Compassion
Is My God a Holy They?
For years in my new thought circles we have said "Mother-Father God" as a way to include the Mother, include the Goddess in our God, something that didn't happen in our childhood. We have also often referred to God as "It" in order to leave the … [Continue reading] about Is My God a Holy They?
“Everything I need is right here” Really?
"Everything you need is right here," said the young woman behind the counter of the Philadelphia Airport food counter as she handed me my bag to go. "Really?" I couldn't resist saying. "Everything? Absolutely everything that I … [Continue reading] about “Everything I need is right here” Really?
Feeling and Breathing the Northern California Wildfires
The saying goes, there are four seasons in California: flash floods, mudslides, wildfires and pride parade. At this point we're deep in the wildfire season. Where I sit in Sacramento we're breathing smoke and seeing haze from a huge fire … [Continue reading] about Feeling and Breathing the Northern California Wildfires
I Don’t Have to Tell People I’m Setting a Boundary
I like to think that I know something about boundary setting, but I actually have only learned a few things, and highly imperfectly. For that reason, I wrote a post about a year ago: the top 10 ways NOT to set boundaries. Since it was sarcastic … [Continue reading] about I Don’t Have to Tell People I’m Setting a Boundary
Summer Junk Food for the Mind
Where do you stand on junk reading? I go back and forth. For years I have alternated "quality" literature--like deep spiritual inquiries, riveting memoirs, biographies and histories and prize-winning novels--with "beach" reading like … [Continue reading] about Summer Junk Food for the Mind
Feel the Slow Sweet Good Love of Mister Rogers (aka God)–5 Snouts up for Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
(:)(:)(:)(:)(:) 5 enthusiastic Snouts up (Understand my Snout-Based Rating system) for Wont You Be My Neighbor? The movie about Fred aka "Mister" Rogers. A month ago I was in San Diego to see my mother and this movie was sold out on a … [Continue reading] about Feel the Slow Sweet Good Love of Mister Rogers (aka God)–5 Snouts up for Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Hurry to see the Hilarious Thanksgiving Play at Cap Stage
(:)(:)(:)(:)(:) Five enthusiastic snouts up (see Understanding the Snout-Based Rating System) for The Thanksgiving Play by Larissa FastHorse on the Capital Stage through July 22nd. It's no small trick to create a play that is edgy, … [Continue reading] about Hurry to see the Hilarious Thanksgiving Play at Cap Stage
The Path not Taken–Some Version of me is a Fighting Death Penalty Cases Right Now
You ever have a strong sense of the road not taken in your life? Not necessarily regret, but just a sense of what might have been if. Sometimes I get this feeling that life is like a video game in which multiple versions of the same story … [Continue reading] about The Path not Taken–Some Version of me is a Fighting Death Penalty Cases Right Now
Five Snouts Up for PBS’ Little Women–an early feminist masterpiece
(:)(:)(:)(:)(:) (click here to understand my snout-based rating system) for Masterpiece's recent 2 part adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. Like most avid (white American) girl readers of my era, I adored Louisa May Alcott and … [Continue reading] about Five Snouts Up for PBS’ Little Women–an early feminist masterpiece
Bless Donald Trump for helping us remember who we are
All evil and harm that is done in the world is done because we forget who we are. We forget that we are one. We forget that when we harm someone else, we are harming ourselves. The extreme harm of separating refugee children from … [Continue reading] about Bless Donald Trump for helping us remember who we are
For Fathers Day: Return Immigrant Children to Their Parents Immediately
As a new thought minister, it is difficult to know what to add to what Stephen Colbert says above--where to begin with the daily heartbreaking news at the border. Even evangelical ministers, who have largely been supportive of and even … [Continue reading] about For Fathers Day: Return Immigrant Children to Their Parents Immediately