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Last night at a Zoom worship group we were asked, "How has this pandemic affected your world view?" Um—yikes? In ...

Getting older sometimes means you think you remember things—but then again, do you, really? As in being told my beloved ...

My father were be astonished. Self-labeled "a merchant of death,"during the Cold War my definitely-analog dad sold General Electric-manufactured heavy military ...

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I haven't posted for a while because I've been working on other writing projects. But today, serendipitously, as we honor ...

This year at my house, Thanksgiving Day will look pretty normal. Our menu will feature indigenous entrees like cranberries, corn, squash, maybe ...

Who shows up for a climate justice demonstration in Boston's Back Bay on a Friday afternoon? Its organizers,* students, and ...

[Mom's 95th birthday party, Neville Center, Cambridge, MA,  2018] This has been a week of anniversaries: my mother died three ...

[An excerpt from Strands: An Apprenticeship with Grief and Loss, to be published by Barclay Press, 2022.] In January of 2020, the ...

[Fresh water tank, Great Lakes Aquarium, Duluth, MN, July, 2021] On a recent visit to Duluth and unable to visit ...

[I have been single-mindedly working on a book manuscript, Strands, to be published by Barclay Press next year, so have woefully ...

Yesterday during meeting for worship, I found myself remembering the first time I'd facilitated a forum* on Zoom— just days ...

Saturday, a gorgeous spring day, I was sitting, maskless, on a Cambridge Common park bench chatting with a new friend ...

Back in October a gifted Buddhist teacher, Sharon Salzberg, offered a “Ten-Day LovingKindness Challenge” course online—recommended by my friend, Diana ...

These days, I've noticed that when my dear friend Alex is asked how he's doing, he'll often respond, "Given the ...

Urged to do so, I dutifully watched the first two episodes of the Ken Burns' documentary on Ernest Hemingway—and, much ...

Week Six: "And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors" So the Aramaic word, waahboqlan, can mean "forgive" but ...

Today, here's how I'm remembering a moment at the end of the documentary, "Knock Down the House." It's election night ...

Quakers often quote that passage from 1 Kings when a depressed and confused Elijah, standing on top of Mount Horeb, ...

I distinctly remember how I'd felt, years ago, probably in a Philosophy 101 class, when I realized that light becomes darkness and ...

[Snarky Puppy, House of Blues, Boston, May 12, 2019] Every year between Christmas and New Year's, I read my journal ...

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 ...

[Edward Tufte's Hogpen Hill Farm's Sculpture Landscape Park, Woodbury, CT; October 12, 2020] Yesterday afternoon, as it has done for ...

I've heard lots of people talk about "the real estate in my head" lately but have had no reason to ...

Is it slew? Is it slahw-rhymes with cow? Does it matter? No. What matters, Pilgrim, is that you and I stay in this ...