Non-Violence
I’ve been thinking more about the message and work of Martin Luther King since the official holiday a couple of weeks ago. It’s because the world seems so violent to me right now, though I know there is violence happening all the time, woven into the long history of humans human-ing. Sadly, at times I become numb to the violence because it’s so constant. But the violence is landing in me differently these days. It’s because I’ve been experiencing a kind of connecting, resona
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Resonance
Written 1/11/26 The back door was kept busy as the kids went back and forth to the trampoline, deeply immersed in some game I could not figure out. And maybe that was the point….no purpose, just play. Ages five to fourteen, all tangled up together. And we knew they would get hungry, likely soon. We needed to act before the hangry kid mob wrecked the gathering. I gathered each kid’s order for P. Terry’s, our go-to for quick and easy burgers. The five-year-old clarified at le
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Allowing
I’m late to the Stranger Things craze. But my daughter is a huge fan, and is now making her second pass through all the episodes while I’m still in season 1. There’s a sequence early on where a kid, Will, goes missing, and the mother, Joyce, is, of course, distraught. She has this very real-to-her experience of knowing Will is still alive, and that knowing comes through some hard-to-believe interactions with lamps and Christmas lights. (The show eludes any brief explanations,
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