back in the day, when i worked for a social innovation firm focused on community-centered design, i found it so curious that in order to...

by meg (11 years old) for earth day the earth weighted down and hurting with our trash Stop! We need to stop killing animals and...

a week ago i slipped away for a few quiet days in nature with my family. we found a new-to-us-place tucked in between huge stone...

years ago, i was in a work meeting and literally told to be silent while a decision about a service i ran was communicated to the rest of...

this was shared as a sermon (my first!) on 3.21.21 for the Church of the Good Shepherd; Athens, OH. the Gospel reading that inspired it...

yesterday i signed a Release Agreement on the land contract. in other words, there is an acknowledgement that the contract we entered is...

a few weeks back, i heard Bishop Michael Curry raise a question that has stayed with me: “how do i both stand and kneel at the same time,...

i heard someone once say that earth is the school of forgiveness. today, it is raining–a divine soundtrack as i sit some lessons learned....

i’ve never liked the idea of obedience. always feeling it as laced with patriarchy and dominance. yeah…nope. and…i’d say that i’m...

i woke this morning to snow. with childlike wonder, i scurried around the house, opening all the curtains and gasping each time the...

yesterday: inauguration. artists and poets and leaders boldly telling the truth of who we are as a growing-up nation. “unfinished”, in...

“The world is selling safety all the time. By marketing fear.” –Peter Block at what cost do we choose safety? safety. our world tells us...

“Creation is the dwelling place of God.”—J.P.Newell when i live as art, with attention to the flow and in-betweenness in connection with...

laughter. the best medicine. i’ve long believed in this. back in the day, as a crisis counselor working with survivors of sexual and...

the elder from South Africa looked at us snd wept out of rage, she said. and then turning to my dark-skinned sister the rage melted into...

i awoke this morning and got that today was a day of solitude. a day of carefully turning inward. what a week. on Epiphany, an attempted...

in college, i asked a boy i loved, “what do you see when you look in my eyes?” “me”, he replied. it was the most loving and hurtful...

Last week, my dad stopped by unexpectedly to drop off Christmas gifts, masked. As he cracked open the door and hollered into our home...

© Magdalena Walulik mary has been always been a presence in my life. born at st mary’s hospital, brought up in st. mary’s church,...

The threads are carefully Chosen Revealed Claimed and reclaimed As is the art of weaving Chosen Revealed Claimed and reclaimed The...