Musing on Aging
Musing on age aging? I can’t seem to get into it. I find I have nothing to say about turning 72 this week, though I have tried. May Sarton wrote a whole book on the topic. Well, on the year … Read More
My Third C: Courage
COURAGE: the final installment in the Curiosity, Compassion, and Courage 2020 Tour. Curiosity pushes us to open the box, explore the myth, or initiate a conversation with someone we don’t understand. Compassion brings an empathetic consciousness to what we find. … Read More
My Second C: Compassion
We continue today with my mini series on the three words that have woven themselves into much of my work of late: Curiosity, Compassion, and Courage. Today it’s COMPASSION’s turn. Merriam-Webster defines this noun as the “sympathetic consciousness of others’ … Read More
Confronting Racism Part III: Don’t Spread It
We began this series on confronting racism in mid-June. In Part I, I asked “When did you first become aware of your race?” This was not a question I’d have thought to ask, actually, being of the “race is a social … Read More
Pastor Steven Tendo of Uganda
September 21, 2020 UPDATE I am pleased to report that after being moved to Arizona (via Louisiana) en route to a promised imminent deportation, Steven Tendo has been returned to the detention center in Los Fresnos, Texas, where he has … Read More
Confronting Racism Part II: Listening
“In light of recent events, a lot of people are now feeling a very visceral response in how they show up in this world, and how they see it from our lens,” says Ramunda Lark Young, co-founder of Washington-based MahoganyBooks, an independent bookstore … Read More
Examining American Scapegoating
This is George Floyd’s face. Most of us know of him from the viral video of his death under the knee of Derek Chauvin, a white Minneapolis policeman. Or from the news media coverage this past week. Or from social … Read More
Conflict in the food we eat
So I’ve got a conflict to toss around. Sort of. Not the “difficult conversation” type conflict I’ve been so focused on of late. — or rather had been before my attention zoomed over to COVID. (Zoomed, you get it? Sorry). … Read More
Another 50 Year Look Back
Surely you recognize this photo by now. It is the hill near Taylor Hall where National Guardsmen, many not much older than the students down below, opened fire, killing four and wounding nine. Here’s what I wrote two years ago … Read More