I had the pleasure and the privilege of sitting down with Lisa Moriah to talk about my roles and the meaning behind them, my own journey as a Jewish convert, and the intimate journey of transitioning from one spiritual foundation to another. We also explored the concept of reclaiming aspects of previous traditions and the…
Such Silence – a poem by Mary Oliver As deep as I ever went into the forest I came upon an old stone bench, very, very old, and around it a clearing, and beyond that trees taller and older than I had ever seen. Such silence! It really wasn’t so far from a town, but…
We used to live in a too-small, too-crowded house with too many children. Our small deck was my sanctuary where I created a container garden. One season I decided to plant strawberries. When I went looking for starts at my favorite nursery, I couldn’t find “regular” strawberries, just some little alpine varietal. Being the lazy…
When I was a teen, I tried to find space for myself in the tradition of my childhood. My mother encouraged me to talk with her spiritual director, a sister of St. Joseph. I told the sister about my sense of myself as an outsider in our patriarchal tradition, including my alienation from masculine God…