Friends, I am in a mood. I am in a mood and I’m going to write—yes again, now sit down!—about niceness, about yes and no, and about seduction, persuasion, cajoling, coercion, and assault. Yepper, that’s what’s on the menu today. I write for the nice ones among us, and I write for those who have not always heard or attended […]
This edition of Reflections is an update of one I sent in the spring of 2016, when things seemed very different from the way they seem today, somehow. Still, the message to care for one another and ourselves seems more and more important. Dear ones— I hope this day finds you well and aware of blessing. What has […]
I’m thinking about how much ground we spiritual and religious progressives have ceded. What the hell? The ground we too often cede is the moral high ground. The ground of love. The ground of respect. The ground of care for Earth. The ground of what really matters for the few seasons we have to live. […]
Beloved— This issue of Reflections gets an honest-to-goodness content warning. I have written some home truths about dieting, the dieting industry, and the nature of self-compassion. But there’s some hard stuff in here, and if you are someone who struggles with your weight, food, or your body, and you’re just not feeling like going there […]
Lammas (from “Loaf Mass”) is here, and I’ve made a little video for us to share! Lammas, as the first of the harvest festivals, the grain holiday, is all about the “fruit of Earth and work of human hands.” It is the holiday of bread and sacrifice, the body of the grain cut down, threshed, […]