Nov 16, 2016 | Judaism, Nature, Poems, Social Justice
Dear Friends ~ The first week has passed: seven days of living in the shadow of this new reality: President-Elect Donald Trump. For many of us this has been a week of mourning, a kind of Shiva. I have done my share of weeping. And raging, even as I followed my...
Nov 9, 2016 | Poems, Social Justice
Beloveds ~ As I woke to the national nightmare of a Donald Trump presidency this morning, a friend asked me for a poem. I am still too raw for a new poem, but this one from a couple of years ago wants to come forward to help. I send it out with love and hope for our...
Nov 1, 2016 | Nature, Poems, Social Justice, Workshops
Dear Ones~ With many of you, this Fall I have been cheering vigorously for the “Water Protectors” of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in their heroic challenge to the fossil fuel industry, I sense in this powerful movement of indigenous people—and in the...