Subject: Freedom, Feminism, and Deepening our Inquiry
Freedom, Feminism, and Deepening our Inquiry
October 25th, 2025 at 1:49 pm EDTHi Friend, The experience startled me, evoking bigger questions about navigating these times. Just last week. After kayaking with a friend - let's call her Rose - on an exquisite autumn evening here in the Hudson Valley, we put our boats in the ...
Halloween, Witches, and a new podcast with Max Dashu
October 18th, 2025 at 10:00 am EDTHi Friend, Hallowe'en - All Hallow's Eve; the night before All Saints Day; Sawhain - the Witches' New Year; the time when the veil between this world and that world are thin - just keeps growing in popularity in the United States (and, so far as I ...
Powwow Stories and Pretty Stickers
October 11th, 2025 at 11:00 am EDTHi Friend, Sometimes we get to be a small part of part of a realization of some 'big prayers'; prayers that are not just spoken by ourselves for ourselves, but are whispered/sang/spoken/cried for years; for decades; for generations. This past wee ...
Divine Remembrance and Land Relationship
September 27th, 2025 at 10:00 am EDTHi Friend, I first met Sheikh Adeyinka Mendes many years ago, pre-Pandemic, at the mosque in New Jersey where he was serving at the time. He was introduced to me by a former ReMembering participant. I was immediately impressed with his presence: c ...
Equinox, Demeter, and the Great Mysteries
September 20th, 2025 at 10:00 am EDT[] Hi Friend, Some origin-story writing that I'm in the midst of at the moment has brought me to the ancient Greek story of Demeter/Persephone/Hecate. It is one of many old stories about a heroine who falls into some kind of an underworld; one of ...
Some Theological "Chop Chop"
September 13th, 2025 at 10:00 am EDT[] Hi Friend, Teaching the ReMembering Course is, for me, something of an artistic practice, perhaps akin to weaving, where there are many threads that I am bringing together, teasing out, tugging, unravelling, and then re-weaving. Much of the time ...
Back to School: What are we learning?
September 6th, 2025 at 10:00 am EDT[] Hi Friend, Back to School: excitement. Trepidation. Uncertainty. What will that new teacher be like? What will the other kids say about your shoes? Back to School: Excitement. Trepidation. Uncertainty. More time for parents and caregivers to work ...
Peaches, Labor, Abundance: A Labor Day Reflection
August 30th, 2025 at 10:00 am EDT[] Hi Friend, Oh, peaches! I have to tell you, just for a moment, how much I love peaches. Really, all stone fruit. OK. Just about all summer fruit. (Is there a summer fruit I don't like? I'll have to think about that.) Throughout the year, I'm a be ...
Wealth, Relationality, and Weaving into the Web of Life
August 23rd, 2025 at 10:00 am EDT[] Hi Friend, I was so excited when the book Decolonizing Wealth by Edgar Villanueva came out. After hearing him speak in a packed Brooklyn bookstore, I bought his book and read it quickly. Here was an indigenous man who had worked inside philanthro ...
Ocean gifts and other unexpected possibilities
August 16th, 2025 at 10:00 am EDTHi Friend, About six years ago, I got an unexpected invitation ... with a lot of unexpected results. One of which was the way in which I think and teach about Origin Stories. It's such a cool story that I want to share it with you. It was 2019 (rea ...