Leah Elliott

A visit from the missionaries made my night. For real!

We were enjoying some herbal treats one night, when who should knock at the door but the Mormon missionaries!

We hear their voices from our bedroom. “Are your mom and dad here?” Kristopher and I look at each…

Manifesto

May the oppressed go free
to release the Creation
lying fallow and frozen within

I changed one habit and tripled the number of books I read.

I’ve long thought, “yeah, I’d like to read more books,” but that vague desire began to feel like an urgent need last year when I discovered the fabulous blog Brain Pickings. Its author Maria Popova describes Brain Pickings as,…

For a Limited Time Only! (Capitalism Blues)

O say does that war-tangled Bannon yet prey
o’er the Land of the Free Gift with Purchase!
and the home of the KKK?