April 13, 2026 I found it interesting that this morning’s New York Times chose Trump’s feud with Pope Leo as its leading headline while wars continue to rage around the world, gas prices rise, stock markets fall, and Viktor Orban actually concedes defeat in Hungary. Wish I could ask the editors’ reasoning behind that. MaybeContinueContinue reading “The “Liberal” Leo”
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Peace as Resistance
April 7, 2026 Esther “Etty” Hillesum (15 January 1914 – 30 November 1943) was a Dutch Jewish author of confessional letters and diaries which describe both her religious awakening and the persecutions of Jewish people in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation. In 1943, she was deported and murdered at Auschwitz. Compare her to the sitting President of the United StatesContinueContinue reading “Peace as Resistance”
Contemplation with Cat
February 21, 2026 In this Lenten season, instead of “giving up,” I’m trying to “give to,” such as giving time to God in meditation, but sometimes a cat assumes it’s a god, too. Contemplation with Cat Dear Cat, who asked you hereinto my time of prayerand up to my empty lap?I did not invite yourContinueContinue reading “Contemplation with Cat”
Oh, Canada . . .
February 11, 2026 My American heart grieves for Canada this day, particularly for Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, for its community, and for British Columbia. How I despair to see Canadians experience and feel what so many Americans have had to experience and feel ourselves: the senseless, soul-searing, heartbreak, confusion, anger, and helplessness of unexpected violenceContinueContinue reading “Oh, Canada . . .”
One Year Later
January 20, 2026 Today, one year into the second term of Donald Trump, we are a country in distress. Today is not a day to celebrate, but to mourn and to prepare. In another immature and bullish post (Epstein files, Venezuela, and ICE aside), Trump spewed about invading Greenland because neither Greenland nor Denmark awardedContinueContinue reading “One Year Later”
Resistance and Resilience: Offering
September 23, 2025 For the past few months, this blog has been focused on works of creativity as acts of resistance to the powers that be and a means of resilience that remind us we are not alone even as the world turns upside-down and inside-out. This morning’s post will be the last in thisContinueContinue reading “Resistance and Resilience: Offering”
Morning Prayer
March 13, 2025 Lauds And is this prayer?Just this, the shade rolled upabove smudged window panes,two unmatched candles on the sill,a vase of store-bought mumsa bright offering?Outside, the sun seepsinto the faded gray skybefore it brushes itwith the rose and saffronof another new beginning.A curtain of still-naked treesprepares to bud forthin faithful hope. Can thisContinueContinue reading “Morning Prayer”
New Year 2025
December 31, 2024 With apologies to Dylan Thomas, may we not go gentle into 2025, losing our souls to apathy and complacency, but enter this particular New Year with eyes and hearts wide open, ready to rage against the dying of the Light, of Love, of Compassion, of Justice, of Mercy, and of Honesty, whereverContinueContinue reading “New Year 2025”
Lenten Day Thirty: Joseph Campbell
“We cannot cure the world of sorrow but we can choose to live in joy.” Joseph Campbell
Third Lenten Sunday: Wendell Berry
March 3, 2024 Because Sundays are excluded from counting the Lenten days(even though I count them for this blog series so I can keep up with where I am), I offer this Sabbath poem by Wendell Berry and his reminder that “What we need is here.” Sabbath blessings ~ Rosemary The Wild Geese Horseback onContinueContinue reading “Third Lenten Sunday: Wendell Berry”
Spirit Reflections 