Our country has slogged through a two year political season. Mercifully, the election at least, will soon be over.  I’m still trying to figure out how to think about this time. It’s felt like a great big public brawl. The kind where we are down in the mud with each other. It’s plowed up things…

I am currently in a place that makes my heart sing everyday. I live beside a lake in Minnesota. Some days when I’m walking the wooded trails, not another human being in sight, I pinch myself (in my mind) to make sure this is happening. I am blessed in this moment. I give thanks. Every…

If I were alone in a desert and feeling afraid, I would want a child to be with me for then my fear would disappear and I would be made strong. This is what life itself can do because it is so noble, so full of pleasure and so powerful. But if I could not…