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This year at my house, Thanksgiving Day will look pretty normal. Our menu will feature indigenous entrees like cranberries, corn, squash, maybe ...
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Who shows up for a climate justice demonstration in Boston's Back Bay on a Friday afternoon? Its organizers,* students, and ...
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[Mom's 95th birthday party, Neville Center, Cambridge, MA,  2018] This has been a week of anniversaries: my mother died three ...
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[An excerpt from Strands: An Apprenticeship with Grief and Loss, to be published by Barclay Press, 2022.] In January of 2020, the ...
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[Fresh water tank, Great Lakes Aquarium, Duluth, MN, July, 2021] On a recent visit to Duluth and unable to visit ...
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[I have been single-mindedly working on a book manuscript, Strands, to be published by Barclay Press next year, so have woefully ...
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Yesterday during meeting for worship, I found myself remembering the first time I'd facilitated a forum* on Zoom— just days ...
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Saturday, a gorgeous spring day, I was sitting, maskless, on a Cambridge Common park bench chatting with a new friend ...
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Back in October a gifted Buddhist teacher, Sharon Salzberg, offered a “Ten-Day LovingKindness Challenge” course online—recommended by my friend, Diana ...
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These days, I've noticed that when my dear friend Alex is asked how he's doing, he'll often respond, "Given the ...
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Urged to do so, I dutifully watched the first two episodes of the Ken Burns' documentary on Ernest Hemingway—and, much ...
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Week Six: "And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors" So the Aramaic word, waahboqlan, can mean "forgive" but ...
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Today, here's how I'm remembering a moment at the end of the documentary, "Knock Down the House." It's election night ...
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Quakers often quote that passage from 1 Kings when a depressed and confused Elijah, standing on top of Mount Horeb, ...
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I distinctly remember how I'd felt, years ago, probably in a Philosophy 101 class, when I realized that light becomes darkness and ...
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[Snarky Puppy, House of Blues, Boston, May 12, 2019] Every year between Christmas and New Year's, I read my journal ...
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Hoping to see the once-in-a-lifetime sighting of Jupiter and Saturn last night, I'd traipsed all over my neighborhood trying to spot ...
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[Edward Tufte's Hogpen Hill Farm's Sculpture Landscape Park, Woodbury, CT; October 12, 2020] Yesterday afternoon, as it has done for ...
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I've heard lots of people talk about "the real estate in my head" lately but have had no reason to ...
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Is it slew? Is it slahw-rhymes with cow? Does it matter? No. What matters, Pilgrim, is that you and I stay in this ...
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Needing to do some in-person banking yesterday (where, wearing a mask, my glasses so thoroughly fogged up I could barely ...
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This year, Coming Out Day prompted me to recall the first time someone came out to me—almost fifty years ago ...
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On a propitiously spectacular early-summer Sunday, maybe fifty of us, maybe a hundred, most of us White, most of us ...
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