uncasting the outcast

uncasting the outcast

3 minute read I don’t remember when I started noticing the friction between the social justice committee and the rest of the church, but it had to have been before I was 12. I was one of those kids that always ran around with the grownups, so when the grownups...
poems out a window

poems out a window

I stumbled across this, the poet laureate of Oregon, delivering poems out his studio window, and the story of it.  He’s Black and Iranian and embedded in the Pacific Northwest. It inspires me to wonder if I, too, could just…pick a place and start reading....
Fixing Therapy

Fixing Therapy

Lately, my therapist has been stuck. I can tell, because recently they asked me what I thought we could ACTUALLY work on.  I had been talking about the state of the world, and how it impacts me, and they finally said, “well we can’t fix that.” It...
Burnout! September Salon Theme

Burnout! September Salon Theme

NOTE THE NEW DATE: SEPTEMBER 21 Good Intensives of the institute, September is coming, and our theme is going to be avoiding, getting through, and recovering from burnout.  *using your intensiveness* –not avoiding it. Using it. Ease. Spaciousness. Resting in...