Chris Jordan’s arresting photo of an Albatross, and pix of other carcasses that died from consuming plastics, speaks volumes about the need for greater awareness of our use of plastics and the devastating effects they are having on animals and seas and the general environment. It behooves us all to be mindful of the plastics [...]
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“Death by Plastic” (Earth Day 2012)
Posted in Uncategorized on April 22, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Your Tuesday Music Therapy (With Leonard Cohen)
Posted in Uncategorized on April 17, 2012 | 2 Comments »
O, gather up the brokenness Bring it to me now The fragrance of those promises You never dared to vow. The splinters that you carried The cross you left behind Come healing of the body Come healing of the mind. And let the heavens hear it The penitential hymn Come healing of the spirit Come [...]
And now for a very pretty picture (Noon Wine)
Posted in Uncategorized on April 16, 2012 | 13 Comments »
A dear friend of mine who was, and remains, my mentor in pastoral care ministry, sent this out in an email to me and fellow chaplains in the Baylor Health Care System’s Pastoral Care Department today. He received it in an email from a friend of his with these words: Reminds me of Psalm 91:4: [...]
Parker Palmer’s call for Better Hearts, Better Democracy (Writers We Love Div.)
Posted in Uncategorized on April 12, 2012 | 7 Comments »
What I learned early on from some great teachers is that violence is not just a matter of dropping a bomb on someone or shooting a bullet at them or hitting them in the face. Violence is done whenever we violate the identity and integrity of the other. Violence is done when we demean, marginalize, [...]
Feeling Good with Nina Simone (Monday Music Therapy)
Posted in Uncategorized on April 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Now that I’ve been renewed and restored by Holy Week and Resurrection Sunday. I’m feeling pretty good and hope you are too, you of the Jitterbug Cult.. And if not, some feel-good, new-life Nina Simone music might make your Eastertide* Monday more mellow . . . Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun [...]
The Superstar is no more (Noon Wine)
Posted in Uncategorized on April 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Imagine how they must feel after this superman teacher and healer, who confounded them all while also instilling hope in their dreary lives, is plenty dead and entombed. Imagine how entombed they must feel in their sadness, some in their confused bitterness perhaps, some (i.e. Peter) entombed by guilt and shame, and all in fear [...]
Easter People in a Good Friday World (Noon Wine)
Posted in Uncategorized on April 6, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Let us therefore, receiving a kingdom that is firm and stable and cannot be shaken, offer to God pleasing service and acceptable worship, with modesty and pious care and godly fear and awe. Hebrews 12: 28 In a world plagued by devastation, doubt, destruction; a world of natural calamities and man-made crises, it is easy [...]
Showered with flowers...
Posted in Uncategorized on April 2, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Reblogged from Heifer 12 x 12: As I walked up the steep road leading to Chillcapata, a rural community outside Puno, Peru something told me I was going to fall madly in love with the place. First clue: there was a gigantic, beautifully bedecked flower arch to greet me. A cheery welcoming committee was assigned [...]
“Smile at the blue sky” (Pretty Pix, Poetry Div.)
Posted in Uncategorized on April 1, 2012 | 2 Comments »
April is upon us. National Poetry Month. . . . Buddhist Economics” The instructions are clear Stop talking, stop thinking Look into where unchecked talking and thinking get us Chaos, horror, violence, war, economic collapse Suffering beyond comprehension The challenge is to stop To come back to the quiet place in your mind Stop scheming, [...]
Regarding the poor: The Judases are always with us (Midnight Wine)
Posted in Uncategorized on March 30, 2012 | 2 Comments »
One of the sweetest acts in the gospels–literally and figuratively–has to be that of Mary anointing Jesus with expensive perfume, and her sweeping her hair tenderly over his feet. It was also a bold act on Mary’s part, in light of the context of the times, since a Jewish woman was forbidden from loosening her [...]
