Everyone has a story. And that story runs through their entire life like a tapestry thread. This video from Cleveland Clinic asks: If you could stand in someone else’s shoes . . . hear what they hear. See what they see. Feel what they feel. Would you treat them differently?” The only audio on this […]
Worlds Apart: The Incommensurability Problem
When I was about 7 years old, my brother had a series of children’s songs on cassette tape. One of the songs included this chorus: Danke schön, mein Herr! Danke schön, danke schön! Thank you, my King— For life is so wunderschön! The problem? I didn’t yet speak German. So what I heard instead was […]
From the Stream: Roots, Relationship, Results
From time to time, I’ll pull content from my Twitter thoughtstream and share it with you here too. Follow me on Twitter if you’d like to be part of the live flow. The thoughts below were inspired by a key quote from church this weekend. We’re two sessions into a series on hope. Recap: “Transform […]
On Dodging Grief
My friend J Mase III, poet, writer, and co-founder of the weekly #qfaith Twitter chat, wrote an article about grief this week. He’d asked his followers about how others react to grief, what they say, and what we wish others said. Working on an article about grief. What do you wish someone said when you were grieving? […]
In Search of My Mother’s Garden — Walker
From Robin Carnes and Sally Craig’s book Sacred Circles: “In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.” —Alice Walker “We might look at our mothers as our first mirrors of ourselves. What they reflected back to us about ourselves we often took as the truth. When we begin to see our mothers as real […]