~ The Calling ~

I glanced to the wind blowing past me today My Spirit swept by like a stranger, though looking Told a story and touched the earth Calling dead leaves and memories to the ground ~ Crisp and crackling, dancing across stones Gathered and placed to mark a garden It’s bringing me home I can hear the …

No Sword, No Shield

When I think sometimes of how much it hurt me. I have choices between anger, resentment and forgiveness. They don’t feel like choices when I am not the very best of myself. The very best of me . . . loves. The very best of me . . . wants, in a way that is …

The Little Mermaid and Bothering Bothered White People

Why are so many white people losing it over The Little Mermaid? It’s a question a lot of people are asking. Some have posited the idea that it panders to wokeness, but wokeness isn’t a fantasy. Wokeness irritates the unwoke for an entirely different set of reasons. Some suggest that it’s an inability to allow …

The Gut Punch of Uvalde

Parents - all parents are deeply affected by events like these at Uvalde Texas. What white parents may not recognize as we all take the gut punch of senselessness - as we look at our children sleeping and fear for their lives knowing nowhere is safe - not even a grade school. Parents of Black …

A Hero is Made

Once in a while, greatness rises from the cast of the every day human. Though it abounds among the populations of good people faced with dark circumstances in flickers of small acts of heroism - that every day hero is seldom found on the global stage charged with heroism on a global scale with consequences even …

Imagine

Imagine your son - your brother - your husband - your nephew - your cousin . . . killed. Imagine him killed with a bullet from a gun, only to be told by the killer that they didn’t know it was a gun in their hand. Imagine that this person who killed your loved one …

A Year of Reveal

It was a difficult year last year. More difficult than I felt okay letting on. There were losses unshared, small failures, and a list of aspirations set aside that today are past their productive hours. - Many people I know had their own losses and their own aspirations to set aside than to entertain mine. …

Condemning Big Lies, Suborning Small Lies and the Act of Distancing Us From Ourselves

I used to have a saying I lived by. "If you're lying to yourself, I won't brand you a liar to me." I'm not so sure that was the noble policy I thought it to be. It's not so harmful when it's a friend with a New Years resolution saying for the third time this …

The Emperor & The Elephant Have No Clothes

The Emperor Has No Clothes is a parable unknown to very few - if any. Its usefulness as an idiom is only paralleled in its referential precision by the phrase and the tale “The Elephant in the Room” where their idiomatic use have become an indelible part of our casual and contemporary lexicon. None more …

Looking The Other Way

We live in a time where we are called to embody the values by which we wish to live. Not just as an individual, but as a society. In every choice made, we assemble the parts list from which our coming human condition will be constructed.  Today - this moment - this act or this …