Dear Radically Connected Friends ~ Just one month ago I was hunkered down, writing in my little attic office hovel, wrapped in fleece, feeling like this was going to be it for the long haul. And now I find myself thinking about bike trails and being sort of stunned when I open the porch door and a blast of icy air doesn’t greet me. Feels like it happened overnight…just like it did when one day I didn’t need reader glasses…
When I was a kid, my family didn’t talk about the important stuff that was going on in the world. The news was on TV of course. And I probably overheard adults talking here…
Be on high alert if you find yourself hoping for a return to ‘normal’. The norm is no longer yours to determine. Release normal. Release. (Truth: ‘Normal’ was (is) awful for a lot of…
Two journeys to whiteness Like many of those of European decent, I grew up learning about my immigrant ancestors, harboring great pride in their brave choices to leave the strife of their homeland and…
Journal Gazette Publication: October 14, 2018 We tend to think that school-age children are blank slates who don’t see color and only learn about race when they first encounter it. Yet studies show that…
we are all connected in the deepest, most intricate of ways – each of us to every one and every thing, seen and unseen. There is not one thing we do or action we…
This blog was initially written July 25, 2016. An addendum dated Sept. 21, 2016 follows, as well as another addendum dated January 9, 2024. Our thoughts and patterns and structures create our emotions and…
