Sitting on the floor of my apartment with a girlfriend of mine, we talked about how our lives are percieved by the money and material goods we have. As it turns out, neither of us felt comfortable with the labels most people in Western culture would place upon us after judging by these standards. For …
Since Wednesday, I haven’t checked for any messages on my phone or went onto Facebook. Do you know how good that feels? It’s been nice to disconnect in those ways and to release myself from them for a while. It is one of the things I learned in Kenya, how nice it can be to …
I walked through the brush, trying to spot a gravestone. I wanted to see them still covered up. I knew they were there, somewhere, but couldn’t see any but the ones that were already cleared. Deb was nearby on the other side of trees. She had walked there before but I had asked to go …
We arrived to the Pacific Northwest Quaker Women’s Theology Conference yesterday in the late afternoon. The grounds are beautiful. To get here, you have to cross a wooden bridge over a lagoon where at the end, you can turn around and gaze at the beautiful bay of water before you surrounded by trees and a …
This is the paper I wrote for the Pacific Northwest Quaker Women’s Theology Conference in Seabeck, Washington. (Now in progress.) The theme is mentoring and eldering and we had to reflect on that topic for 1-2 pages._____________________________ “This girl needs her nose pierced!” That critique is the only shortfall my friend, Leonora, could come up …
It is one of those beautiful nights after a thunderous storm has rolled through and the air is now fresh and clean. Everything is moved, substituting for the school year is over, all the volunteer positions have been assigned and I am sitting by a fireplace in Vancouver in the still calm with a friend …
Life, of late, has been on the crazy side. I’ve kept telling myself to pull through to June 20th and then I can see where the dust settles and take things from there. In actuality, I am looking forward to Tuesday night, June 15th, when I officially leave town for the Pacific Northwest Quaker Women’s …
Earlier this week, I was substituting in my friend, Carol’s classroom at a local high school. It was the end of the day and we were talking when a girl came in looking for a friend who was supposed to work with her on a speech she had to give. The more she told us …
