Writings & Ruminations

Helpful Hints

On the eve of midterm elections I thought it might be nice this week to focus on some helpful hints to keep us centered and grounded on our spiritual path....

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Handmade Holidays: A Guide to Celebrating, even in 2020

Rather than focusing on what might not be this holiday, take a step back and take stock of all we are thankful for. Let’s commit to fully experiencing and enjoying...

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Handmade Holidays 2020, Crafts to Give and Enjoy

This is not a time to go big or go home. It's a time to go home and stay small with great love.

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Family Vactions & Goldfish

I gave myself over to the great gift of grief that allows us to acknowledge that when we fully love, we are allowed to break wide open. Goldie taught me...

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#drford

Lessons so far include remembering to not compare one another's stories---just listen and honor the one telling their story.

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Connecting Through the Ritual of Tea

Do yourself a sweet favor. Take a breath, brew a cup of tea brimming with justice, and share the world’s oldest beverage with someone you love, even if it’s only in spirit. 

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Compassionate Friends--How Love Heals

Seeing the farmers with turbans wound with brightly colored fabrics around their heads digging up weeds in fresh mangled soil I feel like they are preaching to me in silence...

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Destressing in the Face of Stress

Whether it's work, newsfeeds bringing tragedies into our lap, personal stress, or the simple truth that living well is hard, we have to find a way back to peaceful shores.

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"Desiderata"

Go without your phone every once in awhile into the noise and haste of the world, remembering there is peace in screen-less visions.

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In Giving Thanks

Giving thanks is an expression of morality, memory and mutuality.

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Anniversaries & Baptisms

Two sweet happenings from the past few days…

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Guideposts 2018

I believe that if it weren't for God, the devastation of the abuse I went through would be much worse. So that's all that we're about at Thistle Farms is...

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Guest Blog: What Does Hope Look Like?

Thistle Farms has a proven track record of initiating and accelerating social enterprises. When Thistle Farms offers its experience and its powerful community to a vulnerable group of new entrepreneur...

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Group Photo: #loveheals

When gathers now we are quite a force!  Loveheals

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An Epiphany for the New Year: We are the Remnant

I would like to offer a lens for our community for this season. The lens that I would like us to use is remnant. You are invited to look through remnant...

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Poem: "An Ode To Mistletoe"

Mistletoe, in spherical wisdom, calls to us from on high.  Without ribbons or legends; to simply love. 

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How to Live More Generously

I once heard that there is enough food in the world to feed all the hungry children. It is not a lack of resources; it is simply a lack of...

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Shaking The Dust Off

There is rich red dirt that is the foundation of Rwanda. By the end of a week it has made its way into your clothing, your pores, and has seeped...

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A New Emancipation Proclamation

Women who are willing to speak their truth amidst their pain should find freedom and healing, not just for themselves, but for this culture that would still rather keep the...

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A Love Letter to God on My 30th Anniversary

I offer my love letter to God filled with sketches of thistles geraniums, longleaf pines, as well as the thousand other herbs and plants that have taught me why the...

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A Glimpse of Pure Love

When we glimpse at love in its purest form and feel its true power, we experience an eternal pull that has changed the world.

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A Cottonwood Snow

Cottonwood snow lowers stress. It is to the woods that all lovers of justice retreat every now and again to stir their hearts and minds toward love for all creation.

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After the Election

After the election, I will get up and go to work. I will work to help women who are incarcerated, on the streets, trafficked, addicted, and searching for hope. No...

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I've Heard Her Story Before

Bearing witness means listening to a story again and again. It is seeing the woman in front of you, nodding along as you recognize parts, weeping together, and believing together...

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