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A Love Song and A Promise

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This was the “Love Song to the Natural World” honoring the Winter Solstice that Gary Phillips offered to our Gathering the Tribes celebration last night. Like all lyrical writing, it is meant to be read aloud. Especially, I think, the commitment at the end. I hope you will add your own voice to this promise.  … Read more

The Nineteenth Day of Thanksgiving

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I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. ~ Jean Cocteau I am late posting, because we had a visit to the vet today with our sweetie Sierra.  It looks like we are going to begin treating her for lymphoma.  That’s the bad news. But the … Read more

Gratitude Day 18 in a Month Full of Thanksgiving

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Travelers, there is no path; paths are made by walking. ~ Antonio Machado I am grateful today that, after many years of hovering on the edges, dodging, denying, hemming, hawing, and arguing over semantics, I am at peace with knowing I am psychic. I have been conflicted for years about it because that word is so … Read more

As a Follow-up on Patricia Monaghan’s Crossing

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Patricia’s husband, who is a friend and colleague from the Cherry Hill Seminary Board of Directors, has asked us to share this with all who have been touched by the death of his wife, the beloved author, artist, teacher, and leader, Patricia Monaghan.   You are welcome, in turn, to pass it along to others if … Read more

Thirty Days of Thanksgiving, Day 11: Thanks to These Advocates for the Environment

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The North Carolina Conservation Network is a statewide network of over 100 environmental, community and environmental justice organizations focused on protecting North Carolina’s environment and public health. NCCN is an important watchdog pushing back against the huge interests that fund the coal power plants that disregard the EPA’s clean air standards, the logging and destruction … Read more