Since April 20, we have generated another 3 pounds, 5 ounces of plastic waste.  This means we’re still running at something around 15–17% or so of the national average,  using a conservative estimate. Actually, some of that plastic–most of it–will be reused.  This month, we replaced windshield washer fluid, Peter had to drink a plastic-jug of noxious stuff prior to a medical test, and we used up a bottle of ammonia.  All those jugs are heavy! But we have started... Read more

I’m feeling a bit torn this morning.  It’s time to head out to meeting for worship, and I’ve been kept away from worship far too often this winter; I really feel the need to be there. On the other hand, I’ve been just a little under the weather for the past two weeks, and physically exhausted for no reason all weekend.  If I go to meeting, I doubt I’ll have the energy for anything else: not shopping for groceries, not... Read more

There’s another of the periodic discussions going on online over the word “Pagan” to describe a religious movement.  (These things tend to recur, like malarial fevers, every so often, despite the best efforts to settle them once and for all.) As has happened before, the point has been made that Paganism, as a religious movement, is hard to define because there are so many things that can’t be said categorically to define us all.  Some of us aren’t polytheist (or... Read more

Now that I have about six quarts of washed, tender young dandelion greens, the question is– Sauteed with garlic, or in a salad? (The chives are up and doing nicely, too.) var fctb_tool=null; function FCTB_Init_5d1770315b6cf04681f2bb359e9b6067(t) { fctb_tool=t; start(fctb_tool); } FCTB_Init_5d1770315b6cf04681f2bb359e9b6067(document[‘FCTB_Init_7edb8121f861644bae17eb2c5753563b’]); delete document[‘FCTB_Init_7edb8121f861644bae17eb2c5753563b’] var fctb_tool=null; function FCTB_Init_003ef8dbe7fd714882cc8223e82ebc74(t) { fctb_tool=t; start(fctb_tool); } FCTB_Init_003ef8dbe7fd714882cc8223e82ebc74(document[‘FCTB_Init_b8ebcdcc6694a54daf245ee99e4dc781’]); delete document[‘FCTB_Init_b8ebcdcc6694a54daf245ee99e4dc781’] var fctb_tool=null; function FCTB_Init_020337cdec0d6e49acb45ce917f33fb8(t) { fctb_tool=t; start(fctb_tool); } FCTB_Init_020337cdec0d6e49acb45ce917f33fb8(document[‘FCTB_Init_f9829c9625b9b14e84993688b8e76f48’]); delete document[‘FCTB_Init_f9829c9625b9b14e84993688b8e76f48’] var fctb_tool=null; function FCTB_Init_381203bf958e7f439278353b54a1b9d6(t) { fctb_tool=t; start(fctb_tool); } FCTB_Init_381203bf958e7f439278353b54a1b9d6(document[‘FCTB_Init_f02ccc373f294049a3132c48bb6e4b5e’]); delete document[‘FCTB_Init_f02ccc373f294049a3132c48bb6e4b5e’] Read more

I have good friends. Knowing I’ve been wrestling with Hard Things this winter, my friend, the poet Penny Novack, sent me this poem–originally written for another friend, but, thinking of me recently, she said reminded her of me, too, and how she enjoys listening to us singing. I’m honored.But also encouraged. And grateful to have such a friend. Penny wrote: Thinking Of You Singing You are woven into the falling leaf, the budding branchThe daffodil white with snow.You are still... Read more

I have not been posting to this blog as regularly as in the past.  Partly that is because I’m writing other things in other places.  But that is not the biggest reason. “A Silhouette of Sadness“JinKY Lin Truth is, this has been a really difficult year.  And most of what I write about on this blog is the way my spiritual life and my daily life intersect.  I write about what is hard for me, what I am wrestling with.... Read more