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Happy New Year
“I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms.” – Wendell Berry New Year’s Eve 2023, Sunday, Noon,...
Sunday’s Thought
"So how do we feed and nourish our spirit, and the spirit of others? First, find a path, and a little light to see by. Then push up your sleeves and start helping. Every single spiritual tradition says that you must take care of the poor, or you are so doomed that not...
Gratitude
Chip and I welcomed James (2) up from his nap a half hour ago. He slept for three hours, mainly because we kept him up too late last night, and then this morning bundled him up and strolled (he walked and rode, we walked) to the playground along the frozen Twin Lakes...
Sunday’s Thought
"Reconciliation is holy work. Resistance is too. We need to watch and wait to see what God is calling us to do." — The Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, president of the Episcopal Church’s House of Deputies.
Good Morning
I was just reading that Emily Dickinson called November the Norway of the year. I wish. In lots of ways right now. But, as Nancy Griffith sings, if wishes were changes we'd all be in roses and children wouldn't cry in their sleep. It has been good to be away from my...
Getting Organized
So, I am here, and fine, and I apologize if I worried some of you. I had to go to Anchorage right after the election and have just returned. It was kind of interesting speaking to the Alaska Broadcasters Association and the Unitarian Fellowship right after the...
How We Feel
"Please help me find the good in this. I'm devastated and terrified about the election results and don't feel strong enough to explain this to 8-year-olds, let alone bring a little girl into the world with this much bigotry and hate and sexism and awfulness....