I sometimes doubt my ability to truly love. Is it love when characterized by transaction and routine? Is it real when we return with a sense of duty & obligation more than genuine desire? I realize that this paradigm, desire, is only one facet in which we experience love in our lives. I mostly call […]
Dreams of My Grandfather
Love them. Know them. Ensure that they know what the warmth of the sun feels like. Bring them water. Speak with them. And let them go. Again and again this will be asked of you. Let them go.
Harry Styles’ “Matilda” and the Generation that Listened
Matilda shows stronger ways of being, and the good things we once thought were too good may be within reach.
Sunday Beans: Holding It Loosely
It’s a warm Sunday afternoon in Phoenix, and I’m making my first pot of beans in over a year. It’s been that long not because I don’t love beans, because that’s absolutely not true being brought up on Mexican food that will fill your soul. It’s been that long because I adore the recipe, and […]
Merry-Go-Round
Only the heat spoke from its fiery mouth that summer.
If You Hate it Enough?
When I was studying music in a very serious (wink wink) university music school, I was part of a saxophone studio. We (the studio) had weekly meetings with our professor, and another weekly meeting of just saxophonists, and we exchanged feedback in these settings. Every week. For four years. It’s intense, and honest, and frequently […]
The Origins of Your Story(telling)
Where was it that you first heard a story that gripped you? The one that had you hanging onto its every inflection, that one that held you by the face, pulled you close and whispered truths that to you that you didn’t know you already knew?
Forgive Them, Father: An Open Letter to Clergy Speaking to LGBTQIA+ People
The Biblical scholarship is there. The history is there. The sociological evidence is there. The psychology is there. The church is behind.
Brilliance
Why aren’t you holding yourself in the light? You are brilliant.