Writings & Media
Book Review – Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
Want to start the year as an awake and brave American? Read this. Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land by Toni Jensen is a beautiful, though not for the emotionally avoidant or fragile, read. I read it a second time this weekend—and I’m so glad I did—my determination
Rest Assured, Life IS Calling
It’s 2025 and truth be told, I don’t have anything new to say. Just the same old thing: We need each other. Without a community where truth is a centerpiece, where full spectrum listening and sharing, where what is wanted from us as individuals, where what is wanted from us
The Season of Light and Hope
All across the planet we are in a most special time, it has so many names and layers but for me, this season is about light and hope. This season is about what each of us, with care, contemplation and heart-guided action, can rise to in service of Life. I
Thanksgiving: Why Gratitude Isn’t Enough
It’s Thanksgiving season again, and even though a big day of food and family seems like it should be a welcome event, I have always despised this holiday. Like most people over 35, I believed all the construction paper pilgrim hat and feathered headdress stuff as a kid… but kids
How did we fail kindergarten– ALL OF US?!
How do I tell this crazy story? How can it be that nobody, except my inner unsilenceable-self, jumped out of their seats and threw their beers at the tv screen, unhinged at the insanity on the big screen? How have we become so numb to lies? To hatred? To cruelty?
There Is So Much Holy Time
It is pitch-dark outside and the rain is clacking on the roof. The sound of the chimney heating up from the fire I just lit brings its own crackle to my soundscape, and I am in my sweet spot—the hours before the rest of the world stirs is holy time
