Grace Notes #3
Now in the New Year, I am furthering my ongoing goal of appreciating such a continuous, overflowing abundance of random good. My list continues with…
Polly Castor
Recipe: Hot Pepper and Feta Omelette
The filling for this omelette is great to have on hand for a quick, fabulous meal anytime. It would also be great warmed up and put on crackers as an appetizer.
Dedications (Poem by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg)
This is for us: this moment of knowing how alive we are, and how this life is rising in us and raising us up together from this moment on.
Women’s March 1/21/17 in (lots of) Photos
I know people all over the world that marched last Saturday for equality, for love, for the earth, for respect, for reproductive rights, for representation.
Eternal Truth is Changing the Universe
There is nothing outside of infinity, and ultimate, changeless Truth is infinite. How can there be something else that needs to be changed by this unchanging power?
Today’s Newspaper Article by Me: Why Christian Science Got into Journalism
Assigned with the day after the inauguration and the day of the Women’s March on Washington, this is what I wrote, printed on page four of a bigger than usual print edition.
Freedom Comes with Responsibility (poem by Jena Schwartz)
Freedom comes with responsibility.
My life is bound up with your life.
My heart is bound up with your heart.
My “my” is tethered to your “yours.”
Book Review: My Grandmother Told Me To Tell You She’s Sorry
This book is as different and wonderful as the exceptional almost-eight-year-old-girl and her chaotic, cantankerous, superhero of a grandmother are.
Featured Artist: Randy Hayashi
I love these paintings done in acrylic by Randy Hayashi largely because I adore the subject matter. They are reminiscent of my trip to the Canadian Rockies with my daughter the summer of 2015.
Driving our Youngest Back to College
We had a whopping, great conversation the whole way, and I can’t be grateful enough that we can talk so well about a huge range of meaningful stuff.
Poem by Mary Oliver: Invitation
Believe us, they say, it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world.
Famous Emmet Fox Quotes
“Attention is the key to life. Whatever you really give your attention to, you become. Whatever you really concentrate upon will come into your life.
Recipe: Grilled Cheese with Red Raspberry Cabbage
This is your basic grilled cheese filled with red cabbage sautéed in raspberry jam. It made instant converts of the most strident skeptics.
Patient People Dare
Patient living means to live actively in the present and wait there. That, indeed, is a very radical stance toward life in a world preoccupied with control.
Book Review: Interrupted
This fresh book is thankfully neither self-satisfied nor the last word, but the beginning of a discussion on what it means to really follow Jesus, instead of the stale culture of most of modern Christianity.