On Sunday morning I attended services at First Parish, as usual. The sermon was given by Aisha Ansano, a young woman of color who is a member of our congregation, as well as a staff member working with our Youth Group, and also a candidate we're sponsoring for ordination as a minister. Her sermon was excellent: it shared some of her personal ( Read more... )

Another one from writersblock:

Do you connect or identify with any particular fictional character? If so, which one and why? If you could be that character in their world for one day, what would you do?

greenquotebook wrote a great response to this one, inspiring me to give it a try ( Read more... )

Last night I was trying to write a prayer/meditation for today's service. I had a hard time even getting started and then really didn't feel like I was getting anywhere good, even when I started writing. Perhaps, I thought, I had exhausted my inspiration in writing my speech about Theatre@First for the Women's Alliance meeting on Friday, or with ( Read more... )

Jonathan Carroll posts a lot of things on FB: poems, quotations, snippets from the book he's writing, vignettes from his life in Vienna, extraordinary photos he finds on the web. They're often thought-provoking and sometimes uncanny in their relevance to myself, or the situations of others in my life. I comment sometimes, but mostly figure if ( Read more... )

I'm having this conversation with Dayenne, the actor in question, who has a different perspective from many of my readers here, as an actor and a black woman and the person in the spotlight ( Read more... )

( Cut for those of you who are bored with Equus ramblings )

Last night, at Chez Henri, the song He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother was playing. It made me think about how my understanding and appreciation of certain songs has shifted over time.

The Police were one of the first bands I really loved. When I was fourteen, the song Every Breath You Take was just amazing to me--so romantic, so thrilling, so ( Read more... )

miss_chance has famously said that, despite having done a lot of physical labor in her lifetime, the heaviest thing she's ever lifted was the telephone receiver ( Read more... )

Tonight we took Alice to see The Big Apple Circus.

( Thoughts on seeing a circus with my daughter and my right brain )

This is a fantastic post about accepting yourself as a fat person and about The Fantasy of Being Thin.

Thanks to gilana for the pointer!