Three Ring Circus: The Thrill of Couples Counseling
When I work with couples, I feel like I am under the Big Top. There may not be elephants, clowns, or trapeze artists (not literally, anyway) but there are definitely […]
Love your Enemy: A Novelist’s Dilemma
If I had known what it would be like to pore over and over historical accounts of military strategy and weaponry and then attempt, imaginatively, to place myself in the […]
Food for Thought, Thoughtful Food
I am in the vegetable garden pulling weeds (it is always a good year for weeds.) I am glad to be away from the computer with my hands and feet […]
Mother to Mother: A Bilingual, Interfaith Funeral
Roberto died at High Valley, our center, after a long illness. During his last weeks, his friends Karen and David cared for him there, joined by his mother Luisa from […]
Becoming a Prayer
We usually think of praying as something we do, a prayer as something we say or perhaps read, aloud or silently. But if a singer is one who sings, a […]
Howl if You Love Gaia: Cristina Eisenberg’s The Wolf’s Tooth
I thought of titling this post “Howl if You Love Jesus,” although Cristina’s Eisenberg’s in depth survey of the effect of keystone predators on a wide variety of ecosystems, makes […]
Celebrating Beltane: Courage in Hard Times
This year, as the festival of Beltane (April 30th) approached, I was aware of feeling anxious. Our community celebrates by leaping bonfires, dancing the May Pole, then gathering boughs and […]
What did Jesus do?
One of the people who most remind me of the Jesus I encounter in the Gospels is my friend singer songwriter Tim Dillinger. He lives on next to nothing and […]
Personality Disorder: Deliberate Misdiagnosis
I am doing research and taking alarming diagnostic tests online, because of an article in The Nation “Disposable Soldiers” by Joshua Kors that highlights the case of Chuck Luther , […]
Sex and Incarnation: Part Two
“What about the orgies?” yet another man asked me. “Orgies?” I repeated perplexed. “Why has no one invited me?” We were attending New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society […]