How A Poem Impacted Memorial Day
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Although I have seen people wear red poppies around memorial day, I did not realize that the tradition started from a poem!
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Wording The World
A Permit For Leisure
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Western society is a culture of “doing.” Since idleness is perceived as laziness, we have little public authority to support leisure. Even our so called “time off” should be action-packed: “work hard, play hard.” We rarely allow ourselves true rest. Do you pack your “time off” with activity? Do you still feel the weight of the undone on your to-do list when you try to rest? When or under what circumstances do you allow yourself to truly rest?
Read MoreBecoming A Holy Vessel
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What is Christmas? Some days have deep grooves in our collective mind, holding mythic dreams and apocryphal stories, dubious in fact while truthful in form. What we celebrate today, that an eternal God could be born into a mortal body...
Read MoreInner and Outer Freedom
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Today, we sing our praises as the "land of the free and the home of the brave.” I wonder though, is any freedom granted from without meaningful if we are not free within? And vice versa, how can we exercise our inner freedom if our outer freedom is severely suppressed? This letter to my future self was written on November 9, 2016, after the unbelievable and shocking election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States, and scheduled to be read on July 4, 2017.
Read MoreThe Project of Humankindness
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This is Martin Luther King's legacy: that we face the truth of our lives, that we look hard and deep to determine if the life we live matches the creed we speak; that we look at the world we participate in creating and ask, from our hearts: is this the world we want to pass on to our great grandchildren?
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