The Feed

I woke up praying today, the words already on my lips. Some days are like that. The holiness of it all finds me before my feet find the...

I cannot tell you about all the places I belong without telling you about my family’s dinner table, about the stories my father would...

Some days are breadcrumb days- the kind of days where you wake up and say, “God, please lean a little closer in a not so subtle way...

I was riding the 1 train. I was running late for work. I was worried about the numbers- would we have enough? Would people show up? Would...

Certainly in late night giggles- the kind that are impossible to stop, in colorful macaroons, thunderstorms and most always, in the wind....

I am hungry, famished really for a brush with the Divine. I’d take a strong wind, a colorful dream or the feeling of gravity that comes...

Sometimes I wish I was the fig tree. No fruit here, just soaking up the sun growing roots, turning green, stretching out my branches...

Here’s the thing I love about parades- they take up space, and there is music and there is laughter and people stand on the sides and...

I think delayed Christmas cards count- the ones with the haphazard stamps, mailed three weeks late. I think the way you get down on all...

My tradition has the gift of seasons- blocks of time that tell us that things can become new again. We can become new again. Creation...

Last week a boy who was old enough to carry a gun and child enough to shoot it was found innocent. As the gavel fell God ask “Cain, where...

I run out of words to write, swiveling a pen in uninspired hands envious of God who flung the stars into place who pulled mountains from...

You should have seen the crowd that surrounded him an old man hunched over worn down like the Appalachian mountains bending over his...

Isn't it amazing how grief and joy can braid themselves together? Like water in tide pools at the beach, the water keeps coming and the...

I discovered- if you are scared, or grieving, or weary of the world and the way it is, then you should ride a roller coaster. And when...