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Food Memories
In the Divided States of America, there is something so intimate and personal between us that will never change, cannot be taken away, and continues to bring us home to one another - the sharing of food memories.
Home is a Song
food memories that never leave us; threads of connection which always bring us home.
Coming Home - Shelling Peas
how are peas like rosary beads? how can purple fingers bring us home?
Coming Home
We carry the memories of what we need to keep from home - and we set down whatever we need to put behind us - even as we make home in new places.
Cowbirds and Cicadas
The cicadas music is a fearless song of resistance in the oppressive heat of summer.
No Words
Can a silent message of our presence be more helpful than words in response to grief? Ask the land.
No One Greater
A birthday celebration on Summer Solstice and its effect on water conservation.
Watershed Discipleship
How our relationship with our watershed is a reflection of our Christian discipleship.
...and Water!
Soil and Water are inseparable but there is something else needed for them to help each other.
Behavior modification - THINK!
When conventional practices are killing us, maybe we should help each modify our behavior.
Dayeinu
In the pursuit of more, can we end up with less? Maybe what is here is (more than) enough.
Spring has Sprung
In the ordinary, there is sacredness. May we find it in the least expected places - where new life might be waiting to be born.
Dugan and Daddy
Strength and tenderness are not mutually exclusive. You can see it in his face.
Kincraft
Learning together the skill of being in relation to the land might just change the world.
Let's Build a Garden
The antidote of resistance to chaos is inspiration. We can control that. It's our job, especially now.
from soil to greatness
In memory of Jimmy Carter and in honor of humility, fidelity, and service.
Love in the Darkness?
Love does not do it alone. But Love is here - saying, "Fear not", even in the darkness.
Joy in the Darkness?
"Be joyful though you have considered all the facts," says the mad (but wise) farmer.
Peace in the Darkness?
We wage peace, not war, on a crooked path toward Shalom.
Hope in the Darkness?
Can Hope simply be dormant - waiting for the right time to break through and live in a new way?
The simplest of prayers
Togetherness, generosity, and gratitude can soften us like seeds in the ground as we as we look around and say - Thank you!
Oh, Hummingbird
Practice bizarre behavior - Look for the nectar in the Other - and, perhaps in a not so small way, save your part of the world.
Do Something
God won't do it for you. You got to get up, even if you've been beaten down, and do something until everyone is free.
Restoring Missing Voices
Womanism helps us apply the Golden Rule to hear voices and songs once forgotten.
A Womanist Lens
With a womanist lens, we are given permission to question relentlessly in order to liberate the muted voices in our midst.
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