Throughout life we gravitate toward belonging. Not just welcome, kindness or even love, but actual belonging. Those relationships where if we weren’t a part, something…
Tag: non-fiction
God, Feminism and the Fierceness of Women
It all started with a snarky comment made by a senior seminarian during my first year at Luther. He drew a line in the sand…
Seriously, Self Reliance?!: Squabble 4 – Conclusion
Discussion Quote #4: “What is the aboriginal Self, on which a universal reliance may be grounded?…The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the…
Seriously, Self Reliance?!: Squabble 3
Discussion quote #3: “When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not…
Seriously, Self Reliance?!: Squabble 2
Discussion quote #2: “Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.” “A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if…
Seriously, Self Reliance?!: Squabble 1.5
Discussion Quote #1.5 “Prayer is the contemplation of facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant…
Seriously, Self Reliance?!: Squabble 1
Squabble 1: Ok, maybe there’s something here…maybe… Discussion quote #1: “A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his…
A sisters’ dialogue: Seriously, Self Reliance?! an Introduction
A Key… Orange = Haddi Purple = Hannah Black = Ralph Waldo Emerson Green = Jorge translation An Introduction: Hannah and I are part of…
The Ripples Matter
It began small enough…my personal economic renaissance. It began this past December when I joined my sister-in-law in her annual Dressember campaign to raise money…
A NEW economic HOPE
Lately, it’s felt a little like the world is going to “hell in a hand basket”…as they say. It seems every day some new threat,…