Leonora
Leonora used a variety of pronouns to describe themselves and I tried to follow, but they gave me an old-man-pass and never burdened me, though their friends who were many still argue about what they demanded to be called.
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The Strange Connection Between Quakerism and Druidism
I spent summers on my grandparents’ farm from the time I was five years old and slaughtered my first chicken. I was curious about everything. Grandmother was Amish and grandfather was Mennonite, and both took silence seriously. My grandfather seldom talked and demonstrated how to do things instead of explaining things. My grandmother would insist I help in the fields and farm. I wasn’t going to be able to ask either of them anything. I had to learn by on my own by reading books written for adults. I also had to listen into the silence in order to try to hear “that of God.”
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Catholicism
When my son McLean turned fourteen, he accused me of being a horrible mother. “Why didn’t you make...
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Blackberry Communion
I remember the heat, the thorns that scratched my arms and face, and the heavy smell of the ripe berries which somehow draped itself over my whole body.
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YELLOW STAR
Her loud voice had stopped everything within its radius, had sucked the sound right out of the air. A vacuum moment, still, suspended. Until someone said, “Actually, I’d wanted to ask about that, too . .”
Read MoreThe Braided Way
The Braided Way is a framework to see every faith tradition as a strand, braided into a larger whole of spiritual awareness. In the Braided Way, combining spiritual practice from various faiths allow us to explore sacred experience and wonder in forms that resonate with our personal spiritual needs and sacred intuitions. In today’s culture, many people shun religious dogma, but yearn for spiritual connection. The Braided Way allows the ceremonies and practices of multiple faiths to be available without the confinements of cultural dogma.