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• Trying not to be blind

  Police officers in riot gear watching demonstrators in St. Louis. Credit Joshua Lott/Reuters Driving around my city today, trying not to be blind.  Military vehicles and fatigues are sprinkled through my route from preschool, to Good Will, to the park, and home.  Hummers painted army green loiter in firehouse driveways.  A man in camouflage fatigues graciously accepts…

  September 20, 2017

• Endings and Beginnings

  photo by Dana Ross Martin An ending and a beginning overlapped for me recently. In the same weekend that I said “good-bye” to a dear friend who moved to another state, I joined a new retreat ministry and blessed the threshold of a new beginning. Experiencing these two events back-to-back felt, at first, like emotional…

  June 14, 2017

• Throat

    My body talks to me.  It’s pretty blunt.  I still manage to gloss over its requests, thinking that ignoring my body will make it grow quiet… silly me. This week my throat complains.  It’s so constrained I can barely swallow. “We’re stuck, honey,” it says, not unkindly.  You see, my throat isn’t trying to…

  February 9, 2016

• Two Birth Poems

  Originally posted on Talk Birth: I shared these on my Facebook page recently too and as long as I was updating my birth quotes, I thought I’d post the poems as well. They could be good for a mother blessing or blessingway ceremony or just to print up for a mother preparing to give birth,…

  March 2, 2015