Why We Must Speak
Our stories have the power to change lives. As human beings, storytelling is wired into the very core of us. Stories are how we learn and how we relate. They are strange little things, collections of words and images that...
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“The world is an infinitely better place because you weren’t normal.” The words brought tears to my eyes as I sat in the dark theatre watching The Imitation Game. The true story follows Alan Turing as he works to create...
Read moreWhat Do I Have To Prove?
“Look at this. These are real people worshiping a living God despite the conditions that the ‘holy’ people have placed upon us. This is beautiful.” I get caught up in having to prove things. It happens when I get...
Read moreA New Direction
“If you don’t like the direction you are going, change it.” I sat at my desk in the small marketing and design firm I was working for and felt my stomach drop. I was browsing the company’s Facebook page,...
Read moreTo Sit at the Table
I’m watching the sun spread its reaches over the tall buildings of Seattle and make its way into the living room. My Christmas tree is still sitting where I left it, a bright green against the brown branches outside my...
Read moreHow to Respond When a Loved One Comes Out
“I think I’m going to tell my family over the holidays.” She was sitting across from me in a small coffee shop that overlooks Pike’s Place Market. The sun glinted off Puget Sound as I looked at her hands,...
Read moreMourning and Anticipation: An Advent Reflection
For one of my classes this week we are working on group projects where we must consider the Seven Last Words of Christ and themes of the Triduum (Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Easter Sunday). My group is working on...
Read moreWhy Are There So Many?
It’s Tuesday, yet this is not a Tuesday Tale. I’ll be back with another story next week, but this post materialized this morning in the space between sleep and consciousness. I felt like it needed to be written. There was a...
Read moreStepping out of the Violence
“Oppositional energy only creates more of the same” -Father Richard Rohr It seems like much of my life gets centered around the motif of battle. There’s “The War Against the Family” one one side and “The Fight for Rights” on...
Read moreTo Exclude and Be Excluded
There’s a small stretch of sidewalk on the way to my favorite coffee shop that takes me back in time. The trees are large, hiding the forgotten iron lamp posts that are yellowed from years of use. To my...
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