I saw the video in a hotel room in Council Bluffs. My husband follows news with an enthusiasm I have long since lost, so I was puttering around trying to arrange things without actually unpacking anything – not a surprise for those of you who followed my posts on sabbatical. The announcer’s voice took on …
As Advent is to the church year, so Samhain is to the Celtic year: a new beginning, a doorway opening into infinite possibility. This year, Daylight Savings ends in the United States on 1 November (the first day of Samhain), so we will have a very visible reminder that we are slowing and darkening toward …
Just over a month ago, I turned to my husband and said, “I can’t imagine being part of a religious tradition where thousands of people die on pilgrimage.” The reports from Mecca every year touch a primal fear in me. I hate crowds. Even in high school and college I wouldn’t go to concerts because …
The headlines are enough to make even the most relentless optimist despair. Those of us who are trying to ignore world news still find it seeping in around the edges while we stand in lines at the grocery store or bank or post office and listen to the conversations around us. So, as we hurtle …
And so we come to the end of an amazing 21-Day Journey…at least amazing for me. This was the most challenging week of the three — line turned out to be trickier than I had anticipated. The learning curve kept going and I see it stretching out before me as I resume a more ‘normal’ …
I thought these seven days of Week Two would be the hardest because I was only one-third of the way through the 21-Day Journey with twice as many ideas and exercises still to imagine. Not so, as it turns out. The learning curve continues and I have (re-)learned some things and learned others: I still …
“Buttoned Up” is such a laden phrase…suggesting: rigid neat silent controlled repressed complete contained conservative final taciturn While there are certainly some aspects of being buttoned up that are useful or appropriate in particular circumstances, there are also benefits to being: unbuttoned juicy whimsical creatively chaotic prodigal prophetic flexible in process. (Un)Buttoned offers both. …