Love

I prayed and wept yesterday it has been a year since we lost Tamir Rice. Rest in Love and the power you ingited in Ohio.

Dirt under my fingernails

I am the woman with dirt under her fingernails.  I am not afraid to get in thick of a situation. I take care to rinse the dirt out yet I am proud to find them filled with dirt later.

I work hard. I work smart. I procrastinate. I work best in collaboration. I work hardest alone under a time crunch.

I am the woman who loves sneakers. A causal shoe is my best friend. Yet, I love the drama of high heels and dress flats. I am learning that I am far more that single deminsion descriptions.

Nail care, work ethic and shoes aside I am evolving particularity. I sit in rooms with people who have the affinity for the same things yet we are so different. 

I wonder how hard we work to learn one another beyond simple words and description. 

I have written off conservatives without a second thought before.  In this new chapter of my life  I am working  to meet people.Whole people. Not straw characters.

Alice Walkerish

I have been thinking about PhD work. I am finishing seminary in the spring. I have struggled to find my writing voice. I have struggled to see how the material is all connected. But in this last year of schooling  I have fallen in love with the academy. I have fallen on love with research. I want to contribute to this community. Yet, I do not want to conform to their restrictions. My thoughts are better spoken. Or expressed in other creative venues. I enjoy critical thinking. Yet, I seem to be limited to the page. If I'm limited to the page then  I will have to write in a manner that excites me. One of my professors told me that I would be a person to provide spiritual resources for activist and scholars. I am taking serious this charge. I am going to write, speak and record spiritual and intellectual

Adult

Adult

A

Attention

Assertive

Already Received Blessings ( bills)

Art

Abundance

D

Discipline

Dishes

Decisions

Delayed Satisfaction

Doubt

U

Uterus 

Unilateral

University

United

Union

L

Love

Loss

Listen

Laughter

Laws

T

Taught

Teach

Tender

Tough

Taste

Adulting.

I am now adulting everyday. It is a constant adjustment. I am in charge of the adjustments. My emotional,physical, and  intellectual well-being is my responsibility. 

I enjoy it. I am challenegd by it. I have invited others in to help with it. But it is my responsiblity if it does not go well.

I have learned that I can deal with crisis as they come. I have also learned all crisis come have begins long before they are crisis. I have started to engage in proactive behavior to deal with the impending crisis.

It makes me wonder about all the talk around refugees. We must be willing to help people in need. I believe we should open our borders. We also must be willing to think about what creates refugees. How do I participant in ways to create refugees? How does my country operate in ways that produce refugees? 

Longing for peace

I am in search of peace.

It is days before the start of advent I am longing for peace in a new way.

Advent is the season before Christmas in the liturgical calendar.

 It is a season of expectant waiting.

 It  is the season of longing.

Recent events and assessment of the needs in my own region have me longing for change.


#blacklivesmatter  #BLM has me longing for change.

Minneapolis citizens maced and tear gassed as they cry out for justice. #justice4jamar

The anniversary of the execution of a 12 year old in Cleveland. #yearwithouttamir

#transgenederdayofrememberance # tdor has me longing for change.

Remembering the numerous murders and suicides of transpeople.  We live in a world where transphobia is real and everywhere.

#Terrorism has me longing for change.

Attacks throughout the world. People using the actions of some to justify the their xenophobia. 

#capitalism has me longing for change.

I live in a country where a person can work full time and still live in poverty. 

#consumerism has me longing for change.

As I prepare for the celebration of my greatest role model   I am encouraged to spend hundreds of dollars of decoration and gifts. 

#Homelessness has me longing for change.

I spent a couple hours in downtown Columbus and I meet several homeless or formerly homeless people.  They were selling street speech.  It is a microenterpise that is amid at providing employment to homeless and formerly homeless people.  The Columbus Homeless Coalition is host to this effort.  http://www.columbushomeless.org/


For PEACE


Or a piece  of a solution for this madness.