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Unfolding: Rilke, a paper crane, and me
I don’t know the official name of the garden. I had seen it from my bike as I rode past. It looked like a quiet place to sit and think, across the street from its showier cousin, the Rose Garden. It...
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I Am #YesAllWomen
On a beautiful spring day in 1972, I was walking home from Pinecrest Elementary School (Hastings, MN), enjoying the sun on my face and what ee cummings called the “true blue dream of sky”. I was the...
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Everyone, And No One, Is Alone
Last week I went with friends to see the movie “Into The Woods” at the Riverview Theater in Minneapolis. Afterwards, as we walked from our cars into a restaurant for dinner, one friend began making up...
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Truth, 2016
It was New Year’s Day and I was feeling ambivalent. About pretty much everything. I wasn’t in the mood to reflect on the year just ended, nor did I feel quite up to staring down the barrel of 2016 with...
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Truth Arrives in Silence
Note: This post continues my reflections on “truth”, my word for 2016. “We can’t rob our gifts of their mystery. We can only rob ourselves of our gifts.” – Ken Page The temperature dropped to 19 below...
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Stand or Take a Knee…
When I was in high school, I belonged to an inter-church youth group. Many Sundays saw my siblings and I attending services at the Methodist, Presbyterian or Lutheran churches in town with our youth...
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