It may be the role of our spiritual leaders—those we accept—to give us the wood for a fire but expect us to provide the match. I thought of that Monday
Blog Posts on Politics
Dead Souls
What happened to the energy and hope that created the Women’s Movement? The urge to reform capitalism that was a part of the 1960s?
Ash Wednesday
Over my long writing career, I’ve kind of resigned myself to being a Cassandra: the voice in the wilderness that speaks, or writes, about things most people would rather ignore and forget.
Saying No
The power to say no. Without it, can we ever feel we are in charge of our own lives?
Women Rule
We plan, we get ready, and we go. Nobody hold us back. Our own fears don’t hold us back.
Women Lead the Way
I find myself getting annoyed: not another fundraiser when I’d rather be taking Pip for his evening walk and making some more progress in the book I’m reading!
Where Are the Men?
In the many debates I’ve been reading and hearing about the criminalization of abortion with the overthrow of Roe v. Wade, there is a major deletion: men.
We Go On Fighting
We always have, and we always will…
The Sea of Faith
This week’s dismaying Supreme Court decisions made me fear for the first time in my life for the future of our world, not our Democracy, always somewhat in doubt, but the spiritual, emotional and physical world we all live in.
Take Your Hands off the Wheel
We must watch the ongoing hearings into what happened in Washington on January 6, 2021, not to hear more detail about Trumps’ malfeasance—we already know plenty about that—but to hear about the acts of courage some of those around him displayed that day and in coming forward now to testify.