Dear Members and Friends, … Which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as humble as the spider’s, what is beautiful that I make? What is […]
Dear Members and Friends, I am the product of many whose lives have touched mine, from the famous, distinguished, and powerful to the little known and the poor. -Dorothy Height, […]
Dear Members and Friends, Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. -Ursula K. Le Guin, “The […]
Dear Members and Friends, And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been. -Rainer Maria Rilke, 20th century Simplifying and De-cluttering our lives are all the rage lately. Beyond […]
Dear Members and Friends, If you don’t know where you are, you probably don’t know who you are. -Ralph Ellison, “Invisible Man” We won’t save a place we don’t love; […]
Dear Members and Friends, How should one live? Live welcoming to all. -Mechthild of Magdeburg, 13th century Christian mystic It sounds so easy, doesn’t it? Sort of like, “What is the greatest […]
Dear Members and Friends, When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. -Lao Tzu, 6th century BCE We are only in the third week of […]
Dear Members and Friends, What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence of faith at all, but faith latent with the lives we […]
Dear Members and Friends, When it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. -The Gospel according to Mark, 15:33 (NRSV) Because Good Friday is […]