Loving kindness meditation for a new era
Dear President Biden, There’s space in my headfor quiet. I can hear ducksquack as they fly North. Thank you for this. There’s still plenty to do, including some missteps to call out and some strongly preferred directions to encourage, but I’m grateful for the longish stretches of quiet in my head. I hadn’t realized how …
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Dear President Biden, Thank you for sharing in our collective grief and mirroring it back to us today as we attempt to wrap our minds, and more importantly, our hearts, around the staggering numbers of US who have died from COVID-19 this past year. I love how you talked about each of those people having …
Dear President Biden, I’m pretty much out of steam and so tonight I’m sending another gratitude haiku to you because as horrible as our overall COVID numbers are and as sad and infuriating as the weather-related deaths in the South and Southwest are, I’m grateful you’re trying to make things better and not worse. It’s …
Dear President Biden, In honor of Presidents Day here is a haiku for you: You have trained for thisnearly your entire lifetimeand I am grateful. I am wondering, though, why is it “Presidents Day” and not “President’s Day”? I just double-checked and learned that we’ve had this holiday since 1796 to honor George Washington’s birthday …
Dear President Biden, Her sermon isn’t posted yet, but it probably will be in a couple of days and you could listen to it here, if you’d like. The Dr. Reverend Kelle Brown of Seattle’s Plymouth United Church of Christ was on fire yesterday. Her sermon “The Necessity of Ego-tripping” riffed off of Nikki Giovanni’s …
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