Age-wise, I straddle the Baby Boomer/GenX line. I married a Boomer, yet many of my perspectives (and musical tastes!) are GenX in nature. This is relevant for my reflections today because I’ve realized in the past few weeks that there’s a “protective” Boomer bubble...
A few weeks ago, the daily meditation from SSJE’s “Brother Give Us a Word” caught and held my attention. The excerpt, from this sermon by Curtis Almquist, reads as follows: We don’t possess our own lives. We are stewards of the life that God has given us, and for...
I was recently listening to an On Being discussion between Krista Tippett and Isabel Wilkerson, the author of Caste, a book we have read in our antiracism discussion group. Wilkerson was talking about the importance of those who are not in a subordinated caste needing...
Last month, I was blessed to spend a couple of weeks with my mom in the mountains of Colorado. Although the town and the townhome were familiar, the territory was new in some senses. It’s Mom’s first summer there without Dad, who died in April. She and I are also...
I know I’m a bit late to the party, but I want to write about the Oppenheimer movie today. I haven’t seen it and don’t plan to, though that is mostly because I just don’t watch movies. (I prefer books, in large part because of how much time I spend in front of a...