“Within us is the breath and our truths and our longings — together they are the song, the creation hymn we have been yearning to sing.” ~Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves It never ceases to astound me how much, and possibly most, of my work with…

My beloved fur baby, Tallulah Nugget, turns 13 today and I am jokingly referring to it as her “Bark Mitzvah”, which is apparently an actual thing. However, as I am not Jewish I will avoid an actual ceremony, which could feel like cultural appropriation, and our birthday celebrations involve bacon…

“I’ve been praying to a father god so long I really missed her — The goddess of benevolence You should listen to your mama if you have a lick of sense left.” ~The Indigo Girls (Pendulum Swinger) At the end of May, the findings of an independent investigation into decades…

“God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like flame and make big shadows I…

“That God had a plan, I do not doubt. But what if His plan was, that we would do better?” ~Mary Oliver Of all the ways my experience of Israel has been working on me, this refrain, this call to co-creation with the divine, echos the loudest in my soul…

“God’s one and only job description is to turn death into life. That’s what God does with every new springtime, every new life, every new season, every new anything.” ~Richard Rohr I decided to be baptized again in the Jordan River, some 32 years after my first baptism. I’ve always…

“Knowledge has entertained me and it has shaped me and it has failed me. Something in me still starves. In what is probably the most serious inquiry of my life, I have begun to look past reason, past the provable, in other directions. Now I think there is only one…

“You root yourself in the source and Spirit beyond all of these forms and categories and labels, you listen to that and follow that and you keep going. Result. No result. Yes. No. You win. You lose. You’re playing a different game. You’re in it for the life of it.” …

“Let me fall if I must fall. The one I will become will catch me.” ~Baal Shem Tov Virtually every conversation I have these days centers around the same point of gravity — a shared sense that we are going through a collective reckoning. Some might call it a shift…