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The Open-Hearted Book Club
Last weekend, I watched disheartened as people dressed up their arguments about (primarily against) #takeaknee in the bodies of dead troops, attempting to speak for them and say what they would or would not have condoned or wanted, what is the proper way to honor them. Most of us have absolutely no idea what the […]
Hey, Mr. DJ. Time to make some space on stage
Every morning I do drop-off with my three-year-old daughter goes the same way. Except this morning. Most days, we’ve just left her brother’s school and she wants to listen to music on the short drive. I turn on the radio and she asks, “Is that lady music?” by which she means, “Is that a woman […]
Homeland Tarot: Saul Berenson – the Hierophant
I have a deep love for Mandy Patinkin. Inigo Montoya, from The Princess Bride, stole my heart as the loyal grammarian (“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means”) set out to avenge his father’s death. (I never did prefer blonds.) The clincher for me came at the […]
Homeland Tarot: Carrie Mathison – wielding swords while blindfolded
It’s officially Sunday morning and I’m up after too much coffee at dinner, followed by a minor fiasco wherein I thought my car had been towed in downtown San Francisco, but it turned out I only parked a block away. No matter. It all gave me a chance to think strategy. And strategy on a […]
When Women Were Birds
So beautiful. So true. Heaven and Earth by Catrin Welz-Stein via RedBubble “Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant […]
On choosing life as a radical act of defiance
“If you have come to help, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” Lila Watson The moment my feet hit the trail, I offer up the same prayer, “Let me feel a part of the web of life. Let […]
Don’t kiss the snakes
Just now I was inappropriately joking with a friend about drunk frat boys kissing rattlesnakes and how my hope as a parent is to raise two children who don’t kiss any rattlesnakes. Then it occurred to me, this is in fact my greatest wish as a parent. I’m not talking literal rattlesnakes, of course (though […]
A dose of courage for the cowardly lion
MerryNell has her fingers deep into my soft, yet rigid, abdomen, coaxing my constricted psoas to release. My face contorts and I wince. I would really like for this to end. I can handle pain, a lot of pain actually, especially if I know it will lead to greater relief in the long run. Physical pain, […]
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