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March 2014

March 11, 2014

WATER SOLIDARITY

Environmental Justice struggles with a news cycle that may report a disaster, may revisit on...

February 2014

February 28, 2014

Nomination for Most Necessary Picture: Twelve Years a Slave

I wish I could talk to my Great-Aunt Marie about the movie Twelve Years a...

February 25, 2014

It’s Carnival Time!

Al “Carnival Time” Johnson sings “it’s Carnival Time and everybody’s havin’ fun…” The twitter feed,...

February 21, 2014

A Softer Focus

“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make...

February 18, 2014

Remember? #NeverLovedUs

“By not finding Dunn guilty of murder, the jury could not unanimously conclude that one...

February 12, 2014

Valentine’s Day

I could be wrong, but I rather suspect that Valentine’s Day is the most widely...

February 07, 2014

Brave Love

I have fallen a bit behind. I had high hopes this year of completing the...

January 2014

January 23, 2014

Flying Over the Squares (for small farmers)

The little towns in their squares light up, as do the scattered lights of farmyards...

January 21, 2014

Epiphany (Continues)

[More king cakes than you can imagine and only two weeks into Epiphany, I am...

January 16, 2014

A Gift, A Letter, and a Drowning Man: The Legacy of “Letter from Birmingham Jail”

There’s an old Zen story that does like this: Once there was a great...

January 14, 2014

Saving the music, Saving our souls

Much talk is made of gentrification, but I want to take a moment and lift...

January 11, 2014

A Candle in the Window

As winter draws close around us here in the northern hemisphere, I find myself drawn...

January 07, 2014

Unconditional Love: An Epiphany

Over winter solstice, I watched my father tending to KG, his first grandchild, with unconditional...

January 03, 2014

On Building Bridges

“We build too many walls and not enough bridges.” Isaac Newton About five years ago,...

December 2013

December 26, 2013

Empty Suitcase

The cat snuggles down into my empty suitcase, out to fill for a trip. She...

December 24, 2013

Joy to the World!

As the Community Minister for the Greater New Orleans Unitarian Universalists, I spend a lot...

December 17, 2013

For the Beauty of the Earth…

I was walking in City Park with a community organizer this week when suddenly we...

December 13, 2013

His Day Is Done

Since hearing the news last Thursday of the passing of Nelson Mandela, our beloved Madiba,...

December 12, 2013

Another Reason for the Season

There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons – That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral...

December 10, 2013

The Goal of World Community with Peace, Liberty, and Justice for All

December 10, 2013 “Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable...

December 03, 2013

Deep South

Planned Parenthood of Louisiana hosted a screening of deepsouth last night in honor of World...

November 2013

November 19, 2013

Songs that Save Us

Emma’s Revolution came to New Orleans and offered a workshop focused on singing and songwriting...

November 15, 2013

Let Us Take Care of Each Other

“I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe...

November 14, 2013

How Sisyphus Got It Right

I have participated in National Novel Writing Month three times now. I have never reached...

November 12, 2013

Anything I can do, We can do better…

“We think that honesty and living in truth are better ways to live than propaganda...

November 11, 2013

What — and who — is Remote?

“Remote” is different now. I spent the weekend driving from Washington D.C. to Blacksburg, Virginia,...

November 08, 2013

Healing of Memories

At this time of year, we have many opportunities to join together with family and...

November 07, 2013

Morality: It’s About Hopping Out of That Tree

We all make a decision every day, consciously or unconsciously: Am I going to cooperate...

October 2013

October 29, 2013

Messy & Beloved? Yes.

Beloved Community is ever on my mind lately, both who we are and who we...

October 19, 2013

A Garden Prayer

That shrimp plant so determined to be seen poking through the ginger and the fig...