You can’t make soup without a dish rag

I was cooking. Actually, I was cleaning. Before one can cook, one must clean to make space. And it was all good until I thought about all the cleaning to come – the pots & pans & bowls & spoons & spatulas & whisks & knife & boards I would...

Socks: Where Binaries Need Not Tread

Socks are a common holiday gift in our family. In fact, Theresa’s daughter teased us after she asked each of us for gift ideas for the other and we both, with complete sincerity, suggested socks first and foremost. I really hope she gets us socks. Socks, after all,...

Expecting discomfort and making room for joy

Last year, I made a note to myself on today’s calendar date. It says, “Expect discomfort, make room for joy.” Today is my birthday. Before you go assuming that the expected discomfort is about the number of times I’ve spun around the sun – today marks 43 years since I...

Living The Resistance as The Embracing

In a notebook of ideas that stays open on my desk, I wrote sometime in the last few weeks, “What if the movement changed its language from “resistance” to “expansiveness” or “embracing?” Who knows what I was thinking when I wrote it down but I spend a good bit of time...

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