Looking with genuine care at the source and nature of conflict in Palestine.
If we are not open to this necessary form of generosity and courage, in a word Leadership, we cannot claim to care more about a path to peace, than we do about retribution and vindication.
A powerfully disarming reflection on the wisdom of grace and equanimity, and the possibility of prayer, for those of us not inclined toward Religion—holding the door open to the possibility that our lives are happening for us, not to us.
There is no greater treasure than to be loved truly for who you truly are. And to be thus loved for who you truly are, one of course has to have the courage to be vulnerable enough to let people see who you really are.
The poems and encouragements in Stepping Through, a village of voices, meet the reader in the spirit of guidance and companionship along the journey of necessary threshing, about Love and Life and how we navigate our sense of belonging and purpose as our certainty and self-belief waxes and wanes through
we imagine all along,
that our lives and our circumstances
conspire to undo us,
when in fact,
they conspire to help us in every way, to become.
“The secret of tension is transformation.”
The Riveralways seems to follow The Way; when the land shifts, as it wills,whether by the slow and steady heaving,or whether by a sudden violence,while the countless ages trundle by,as the rains and seasonswax and wane by the long count,so the river will shift in its course.it keeps on –
Sometimes we will not find what we are looking for because it is not there. If we can give up on it, we discover something similar, but altogether different, something surprising and humbling is instead, waiting loudly somewhere else.
sometimesa new dawn has already arrivedmodestly and unheraldedwhile we were still sleeping,while we were still warming our unmade beds,the uncovered gravesof who we were just yesterday. it arrivedquietly,even as the first motionsof birdsong were passed,to the undiscerning ears of the worldentrained to the bustle of traffic,kettles boiling,and the unwelcome stirringsof
In conversation with Agatha Nowicki, Hollywood actor, writer and soulful human caught at the very edge of the war for the human soul, playing out in the current battle of the writers’ strike, sparked by the motions of the streaming platforms and the power brokers in Hollywood and Silicon Valley