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• On Violence and Social Media
  on Jul 15, 2016 in Black Lives Facebook Life Events Twitter
  This is a collection of observations and statements I've made on Facebook in the past two weeks, in response to all the violence and madness swirling through the headlines, and the resulting ire streaming down our social media walls. I hope it helps...
• Pax et Lux
  on Jun 26, 2015 in Black Lives
  As I sit in my living room, listening to President Obama deliver the eulogy for one of the the new martyrs, the Charleston 9 of blessed memory--and may their memory be eternal--I can only say this: May these be--please, O Lord!--the last nine...
• Amor Vincit Omnia
  on Jun 26, 2015 in LGBTQ Life Events
  I truly never believed I would live to see this day. Yet, in the blink of an eye, it seems, history is made. Of course, it wasn't in the blink of an eye. People have suffered and fought for decades for this moment. I am proud to be their spiritual de...
• A Beloved Father and Pastor, and His Lesbian Daughter
  on Apr 23, 2015 in LGBTQ Life Events
  Religion, science, and politics are currently tangled in a very messy dance over whether or not a person chooses to be gay, and what repercussions the issue should be allowed to have on our broader society. I think we all know the American conservati...
• PTSD 2--Automatic Mind
  on Apr 20, 2015 in PTSD Therapy
  In my last post, I listed several new diagnoses for myself, and it seemed to spark similar questions for more than one reader, questions like, "Do you do anything but seek out labels for your issues? Isn't the actual diagnosis for one who constantly...
• PTSD 1--Afraid to Do
  on Apr 15, 2015 in Church PTSD Religion
  I have spent a lifetime searching for the information I found today on the internet in a 20-minute search. I don't mean I just wanted to know what I found; I was desperate to know, terrified there was something horribly, fatally damaged in my charac...
• A Fascinating Man
  on Feb 27, 2015 in Judaism Kaddish Leonard Nimoy Star Trek
  Leonard Nimoy 1931~2015 Leonard Nimoy was born into a Slavic Jewish family, who left their rural Soviet village for America. As a child in a synagogue, Leonard peeked at a moment when everyone's eyes are supposed to be covered, because the very glo...
• Homeless 15: Terror by Night and Day
  on May 1, 2014 in Homeless LGBTQ Life Events PTSD Religion
  In response to a comment I made, a friend asked me yesterday in some shock if I was afraid of them. The question staggered me to a point that I've spent most of the time since sorting out why, and I have finally sussed out the reason that it rattled...
• Monday Moment 12
  on Apr 28, 2014 in Indiana Monday Moment
  Yes, friends, after a brief hiatus for an action-packed week, the Monday Moment is back! And there is more exciting news--there will be several reviews forthcoming this week! But that's a story for another time. Ah, the first stirrings of an Indi...
• A Faithful Friend Retires
  on Apr 16, 2014 in Poetry Writing
  The past year has been an extraordinarily prolific time for me as a poet. In the Days of Sapphoby John William Godward Indeed, I never really would have used that word to describe myself before. Technically, since I've written poems from time to...

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