what do you love? Not as an abstraction or an ideal What do you love enough to take action to defend it? Know it name it own it claim it it is under immediate threat by taking action to defend it, nurture it, grow it you grow into the person you were meant to be […]

There’s a thing about dancing: it’s an act of life, it expresses being alive in body as well as in heart, and it’s a way of connecting with the world around us. For about ten years of my life, I lived to dance. Then, I went down to the Women’s Coffeehouse whenever they were open […]

I spent the weekend at Winyan Awanyankapi,“Protecting the Lifegivers” – a conference about missing and murdered indigenous women. While there were painful stories, my experience was more about healing and hope – and connecting with people of like heart. Something important happened for me, that I want to share. I was in a workshop by […]

It’s spring. Things are moving and melting. We like this, sometimes. I spent half of Friday outside in the garden, and came back happy. And we don’t like it, sometimes. In Mogadishu (Somalia) people are dying in the floods. Nebraska has had such flood damage that food prices will be way higher this fall, if […]