Passover, Holy Week & Easter, and Ramadan
A Time of Holy Stories and Celebrations – In the Midst of a Pandemic Today I received an email greeting from my friends at WithOurVoice/Children at the Well/Interfaith Story Circle in New York… I cannot say it any better than they, so I’m sharing here nearly word-for-word, to amplify their message today: The Festival of […]
Resource for Online HOLY WEEK WORSHIP – Passion Story
Storytelling in the time of Coronavirus… I’ve been working up to re-starting my blog (it’s been so very long…life…), and especially so since we find ourselves in the strange reality of living ‘midst a serious pandemic – and so it turns out I’m resurrecting it as we draw near to Easter, to announce a special […]
Christmas Story…Expectations…
Expecting… …a particular story…certain holiday gifts…a life outcome…an answer to a question… …the birth of a child, even…
Musings on Loss, Death, and Nature’s Story for Us
January brought us news of several celebrities’ death…a number of musicians including David Bowie; actor Alan Rickman (one of my favorites)…and…my Aunt Lil… One might reflect on why it is we react emotionally to the deaths of celebrities, people we’ve never known personally. Someone tweeted: “We don’t cry because we knew them, we cry because […]
Blue Christmas?
What to do with melancholy at Christmastime? For lots of people, this is thankfully not a problem. For lots of people, unfortunately it is. And for any number of reasons…
Lighting the Darkness
Season’s Greetings… Here in the Northern Hemisphere it’s the astronomical season of late autumn with winter soon upon us…The Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year, is approaching, and the darkness is lengthening and deepening. It’s also a holiday season, both secular and religious. And the Christian liturgical season of Advent. And a US […]
Heaven and Hell
Just too much. There was just too much in my head and in my heart. So I didn’t write anything. It’s been nearly two weeks since the November 13 violence in Paris. I’d been on the brink of writing a blog post about I-can’t-remember-what now, it suddenly seemed off-base and inconsequential so I never wrote […]
Would You Tell a Story at an “Interfaith Event?”
[This article originally appeared in Pam Faro’s Story Tracks February 2015 newsletter.] Imagine this… You are invited to tell a story – for pay, even! – at an occasion described as an “interfaith event.” What would you tell? Do you have a story that springs to mind? Several? None? Would you even want to tell at […]
Gratitude, Gratefulness…Great Fullness!
“My dad traveled a lot when I was a little girl; he was an insurance agent for Employers Mutual of Wausau (Wisconsin). He missed several birthdays, school programs, etc. – but never ever ever felt like an ‘absent father.’ When he was home there was full presence and love and laughter and good conversation and […]
