Let speeches fall silent
Let speeches fall silent and platitudes cease from hawkers of violence they brand as “peace.” Let people who suffer find places to speak, and…
The greatest of these is love
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it…
All are welcome
Let us build a house where love can dwell and all can safely live, a place where saints and children tell how hearts learn…
Life is not possible
Life is not possible without an opening toward the transcendent; in other words, human beings cannot live in chaos. Once contact with the transcendent…
A kind of human kind of union
We heard health care and we thought public option we thought reaching across the street across the lines across the aisle was the manifestation…
There is only one world
In belonging to a landscape, one feels a rightness, at-homeness, a knitting of self and world. This condition of clarity and focus, this being…
The very design
The very design of the suburbs inhibited the gathering of citizens who might want to mount a protest. Instead of broad parks at the…
We like to be together
Celebration is when we let joy make itself out of our love. We like to be together. We like to dance together. We like…
A merrier world
There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If…