Flyers Rights
Specifically, FlyersRights.org. This is another group of good people who are looking out for our best interests. If you travel by airplane, ever, you whnt to support what they are doing. This post is a...
View Article“Porn, Piracy, & BitTorrent”
An August 10 feature story in the Seattle Weekly –“Porn, Piracy, & BitTorrent“–takes a deeper than ‘it’s wrong’ look at illegal file-sharing technology. What I found fascinating was the information...
View ArticleIt may happen to you — but only if you are a woman
I read this today, and I had to re-blog it. http://unwinona.tumblr.com/post/30861660109/i-debated-whether-or-not-to-share-this-story This, in its exactitude, has not happened to me. BUT things very...
View ArticleAdvice on How to Live Your Life
I read this and was touched, deeply, on many levels. How to live your life: Advice from an American student who was killed in Egypt Andrew Pochter, a 21-year-old Kenyon College student from Chevy...
View ArticleSpirituality & Activism
Every since I read T. Thorn Coyle’s profoundly beautiful post, “Opposition is a Prayer,” I have been contemplating whether my spiritual practice needs to be politically charged. Are the two linked? In...
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Dark thoughts
It’s a dark time in the world, and I find myself musing on the last time it felt this way to me. Why now, why is it dark *now*? I’m watching people I know and care about get marginalized — AGAIN —...
View Article“Lemonade”
Last night I finally witnessed Beyonce’s Lemonade. I use the word witness in full knowledge of its religious meaning: I was given a powerful narrative of the desperate erasure of black women in America...
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Lessons from Dr. Who
I woke up this morning with some thoughts rumbling around. Many of us are being called to step away from our boring lives and do something just a little bit more to make our worlds safe again. This is...
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Making Choices for 2017
What a tough year for the world. I could write a maudlin post about the end of America as we know it or about the many deaths of celebrities we used as role models. It would be easy, and I suspect many...
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Being Hungry
(I almost can’t write this, I still feel intense shame.) There were two times in my my life when I was poor enough to feel actual physical hunger. The first was when my parents first separated and I...
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