Hosting An Asylum Seeker
I’ve given a name to the initial phase in hosting any stranger in your home, for surely most come in as strangers. It’s simply: “What is this stranger doing in my kitchen?” The name comes easily — I actually had … Read More
LEAPFROG INTRODUCTION
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change we seek. Barack Obama (1961- ) The aim of this little book is … Read More
Clotheslines Redux
[This post was first published April 27, 2016 as Is There A Clothesline In Your Backyard. I like it and thought I’d send it around a second time. I hope you enjoy it.] Such an idyllic scene. Clean sheets blowing … Read More
I (too) HAVE A DREAM
With the annual holiday honoring the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. hovering, I am called to create my own dream of a time in the future, a time that holds out hope, a time that promises to be different … Read More
An Irrelevant Blog Title
As I wrote to someone recently, “it’s been a busy week for me today.” I think about this blog every day; grabbing at ideas, weighing them in my mind. “Oh that’ll make a good post,” I’ll find myself thinking often. … Read More
(Im)Patience: My Word for 2021
As promised in my last post for 2020, I’m looking forward to 2021 and to looking inward — how will I fare in honing my latest growing edge? What is my growing edge for this year? I’ll leave the predictions … Read More
When Hindsight Really Was 2020
We’ve seen the meme, grateful for the smile it brought. Not only did CoVid-19 take over our lives this year, it took over my blog for three months beginning in March, returning once in December when I talked about having … Read More
GIVING TUESDAY is coming
You know the Statue of Liberty. You know its story. You know how it stands at the mouth of the Hudson River, a beacon to immigrants for over a century. I’ve climbed her stairs a few times over the years … Read More
Living in Uncertainty
It’s been quite the week, month, year. Do we get four more years of chaos and drama or might we return to life as we liked it, once upon a time when we lived blithely unaware of the injustices rampant … Read More