Call / Respond Week 9

We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others, — Albert Camus Joseph in The Well and the Camus quotation have existed in my repertoire for years but were just put together … Continue reading Call / Respond Week 9

A year of Listening, Week 12

Go on with a spirit that fears nothing. -- Homer These words reside on my refrigerator door.  I have given these words no notice, no thought for months. Today is a cranky day.  Going on is not as appealing as staying in pajamas. The spirit is cowering.  Who gave me this magnet?  Why have I … Continue reading A year of Listening, Week 12