Category: Substacks
Traveling Gladly Beyond #3
In 2025, on a trip to Antarctica with my friend Faye, we polar plunged. I’m calling this Series, “Gladly Beyond” from a line in an e.e. cummings poem “somewhere I have never traveled, gladly beyond.” “Gladly Beyond!” There is so much to this world. Let’s Leap! This week, I did something very bold. Something that, […]
Spiritual Kintsugi #3
Spiritual Kintsugi asks us to imagine that what is broken in us, between us, and around us, can be repaired with Love — strong, steady, golden Love. But if we are going to mend anything in this world, we must learn how to provide for the work of repair. In my last Substack, I began […]
Spiritual Kintsugi #2: First Glimmers of Gold
In my last Substack, I suggested that Spiritual Kintsugi might help us reimagine and heal what is broken in, between, and among us. Kintsugi — the Japanese art of repairing pottery with golden glue — teaches that cracks are not flaws to hide, rather they are places where beauty can emerge. When I began exploring […]
Kintsugi 1: Possibilities, Persistence, Provision, Purpose, Peace
Do children still read Chicken Little? If not, they should. It’s an old country fable about a frightened bird who mistakes a falling acorn for the end of the world. He was wrong, of course — but watching the American government now, you have to wonder whether Chicken Little might be having his moment. The […]
Peace Thealogy*: Singing, Singing for our Peace!
Oh, how I love to sing. Thankfully, I have a good voice, so I’ve gotten to sing on stage, in choirs, in Peace Marches, and in groups around fires and altars. Well, and sometimes I sing in the car. Why listen to the radio, when there’s something you’re interested in or a new chant to […]
Peace: As Hell Freezes Over!
Have you been reading about the Great Lakes’ reactions to the cold snap? Although, actually — can you call it a cold snap, when it goes on and on and on? Lake Superior is 51% frozen. Lake Michigan is 34%, Lake Huron is 67%, and Lake Ontario is 26%. Lake Erie? It’s at 95% and […]
Peace Thealogy*: Let’s Bring Heaven Down Here
As I move through this life and these times, I am constantly looking to respond in Peaceful ways to all the horror happening in our country. As a Peacemaker, I understand my work to be helping the Sacred Village, here at home as well as globally, to respond to Creation and the Gift of Life […]
Keeping Company all the Way to Peace
The other day, I had a lovely conversation with my brother. My brother is ‘keeping company’ with a truly wonderful woman. Don’t you love that old phrase? What a nice thing to do with another person, to keep company. It holds a reminder that we are not alone. It seems to demand a certain tending […]
Peace and Its Reliance on Connections
On Monday, I had what could have been classified, had I so chosen, to be a no-good-very-bad day. As it turned out, I was so fortunate that it was not. On my way to work, my drive train, as my car guy said, ‘shredded.’ Under any circumstances, this cannot be defined as a good thing. […]