Category: Substacks

Peacemaking is hard spiritual work. It is hard emotional work. It is hard mental work. And yet the rewards of this work can be both breathtaking and Life-changing. For something that is a dance forward into Possibility, it takes immense courage and concentration, a lot of daring, and the willingness to miss the mark and […]

Ah, welcome to summer. While there are delights to be shared with friends in every season, the juicy tastiness of a ripe peach may be my very favorite. How I love the fuzzy peach rubbing against my chin and the splurt of juice that follows. Oh, to celebrate fruits that cannot be contained within their […]

There’s an e.e. cummings poem that has been working on me for a while. It particularly came into focus while I was exploring in Antarctica. His is a Love poem, but rather than romantic Love, it leads me into a Love that is far more essential to my being than any interpersonal Love. This calls […]

For all the differences between my brother and me, there are deep similarities that can take people a while to recognize. We’ve both lived away from home for much of our adult lives, we’ve lost the family members who made the bridges between us obvious. Now, at this stage of life, we are losing those […]

Slightly more than ten years ago, I dared to add a comma to my name followed by the word Peacemaker. Over the years there have been others, as I identified my gifts. Priestess became part of my identity in the 90s, as I began a communal liturgical ministry creating “Ceremonies Celebrating Your Life.” Poet was […]

After reading my column in our daily paper on helping soldiers to find Peace in our communities, a friend reminded me, “no one ever writes about the Peace Corps.” Of the many Peacemaker’s Ponderings columns I’ve written, I realized that was certainly true for me — despite knowing quite a few people who have served. […]

Sometimes, when I come home from the trauma bay…Sometimes, when I open the newspaper…Sometimes, when I overhear a conversation…I become dispirited. I just can’t. Sometimes, the ugliness is overwhelming.Sometimes, I’m tired.Sometimes, I just don’t want to do this anymore.But what else am I going to do?

For many long years (gasp, nearly 50!) I have studied Tarot. Occasionally I cast cards for money, but mostly I’m interested in learning about Tarot and how people use and interpret the cards. When I retired from the ministry at a local Unitarian Universalist Church about six years ago, I decided I wanted to take […]

Welcome to my inaugural Substack article! I wear a lot of different hats, which you’ll see when you get to the tagline, and I’ve wanted a place where I can talk about all of them, and weave my work together. I’m a Peacemaker. It’s not where I started out, and there have been a lot […]