Over 2000 people gathered in northern Minnesota June 5-8 to protect land, water, and treaty rights against Enbridge Energy’s Line 3. Over 200 of us were arrested in the process, and hundreds stayed at Camp Fire Light, at the place where Enbridge plans to drill under the Mississippi River near its very beginning. Now the […]

Spring has burst forth in the past two weeks. Everything in me welcomes it. So today  just this, with Wendell Berry:   “The Peace of Wild Things” When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives […]

I wanted to post spring flowers and updates on the garden. But too much is happening here. I was following the processes at Line 3, the not-yet-approved pipeline that is being built rapidly anyway, to take tar sands oil through Minnesota to a Wisconsin refinery for export. Indigenous-led resistance is meeting harsh police action, paid […]

As we weary of the pandemic and look forward to spring – forgive my rambling. And note the recording and the events at the bottom of the page. A gunman has shot and killed ten people in a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado. Less than a week earlier a gunman shot and killed eight people in […]

Dear Friends, In spite of Covid-19, we will offer some in-person options for this year. Things may change if the pandemic worsens. Meanwhile we have online events. Online: Sunday evenings, 4:30 Central Time, online discussion group called “The Gift of Fearlessness” Wednesday evenings, 6:30 Central Time, Zen study group. February 20 one-day retreat with Red […]

In this time of fear, when so many people are literally refugees and when any one of us might join them. How do we find refuge, and how do we offer refuge? Refuge means shelter from danger. It comes from “to flee,” “back,” and “a place for.” The danger is unspecified, just fleeing back to […]