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Standing Rock, part 1 – warning: mushy contents
Standing Rock: Day 1 November 22nd I found another woman who is also driving, and we are leaving later today in her school bus for Standing Rock. That means I will have to fly back, because I have to see … Continue reading
Judy Balch Liteky, ¡presente!
Today I went to a service celebrating the life of our wonderful Judy Balch Liteky, a woman who graced so many lives with her compassion and her activism. It occurred to me that she achieved what has lately eluded me, … Continue reading
Posted in justice, making a difference, moral protest, peace and love
Tagged commitment, compassion, healing, love, solidarity
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The Sounds of Silence
This Simon and Garfunkel song in particular was and continues to be one of my favorite songs since the difficult years of my youth, in a country where racism was king and war and greed were deemed normal consumer goods, … Continue reading
Berta Isabel Cáceres, ¡presente!
I have been to too many funerals, memorial services, celebrations of people’s lives, but tonight’s memorial event for Berta Isabel Cáceres, the Honduran environmental activist who was murdered on March 4th, may have been one of the most moving and … Continue reading
via dolorosa
each viernes santo we would travel somberly dressed to view the stations of the cross, la via dolorosa, no radio music to be played all day and fish yet one more time my mother’s escabeche carefully prepared at start of … Continue reading
Women hold up half the sky… a meditation on women’s rights and issues
We are living in a world that is ever more disrespectful and abusive of women’s rights and issues. In our current scene of politicians who pander to the lowest common denominator to blast and blaspheme against the birthing half of humanity, … Continue reading
Empathy and compassion
Yesterday I went to bring papers to the widow I have been helping. After twenty-nine years of marriage to an abusive husband, a marriage in which she stayed in obedience to her marriage vows, as she is a fervent Catholic, … Continue reading
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Tagged commitment, compassion, elder abuse, empathy, healing, immigration, love, poverty, solidarity, torture
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Homily for the 3rd Sunday of Lent: Upheaval and protest
Today is the third Sunday of Lent and also International Women’s Day. We see Jesus the Jewish errant sage on a rampage, throwing the moneychangers out of the temple, an angry Jesus who is acting in a very disagreeable fashion. … Continue reading
Posted in justice, moral protest, subversion, women's rights are human rights
Tagged commitment, deportations, empowering women empowers humanity, friendship, healing, hermanos y hermanas, immigration, International Women's Day, litany, love, my sister's keeper, solidarity, spiritual call, the bell tolls for thee, the call to protest, women's rights are human rights
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Homily: A time to break the silence
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. – Edmund Burke Today in the Christian calendar is the First Sunday in Lent. The Christian Church is speaking about sin, about repentance, about reconciliation. … Continue reading
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Tagged Beyond Vietnam, Chief Justice Earl Warren, civil disobedience, commitment, compassion, Dr. Martin Luther King, Edmund Burke, healing, homelessness, Jim Crow, Jr., Justice delayed is justice denied, Letter from Birmingham Jail, materialism and militarism, my brother's keeper, nonviolence, poverty, solidarity, the giant triplets of racism, war and peace, what happens to a dream deferred
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Wounds, healing, light
The wound is the place where the Light enters you. ― Rumi I remember years ago at a workshop meeting a woman who was a potter, and who talked about creating a beautiful jar which had subsequently crashed to the … Continue reading
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