A lot of folks feel conflicted or excluded from the holiday season when they are carrying grief. Not feeling festive, or feeling more mindful of who is not present than who is gathered, can bid us to retreat from marking seasonal celebrations. But I don’t...
Top of mind for me, and most folks, in the Season of Creation are the critical issues of the climate crisis and the accountability for colonization and the misuse of creation. Faith leads us to travel on the path of justice and right relations. The volume of those...
Mother’s day in our house is mostly a time of remembering as both our mothers are heaven-side. I’ve lived longer now without my feisty mom Lillian than I lived with her and Jen’s spirited mum Vaile died when Cassie was just two. So they are present with us now only...
In our household we’ve built a tradition of remembering those who have died by creating small memorial altars. My daughter keeps a pink ribbon that she lays out every year in memory of a friend.We always have flowers in memory of a grandma who loved her garden....
