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Time again to speak
A little over a year ago, I announced on my old blog that I was going to start a new blog, the main problem with my old blog being a title which I felt I'd outgrown. From time to time, the thought...
View ArticleOn (re)becoming a Christian
I think every religion has its strengths and weaknesses. I don't think Jesus is the only "way." ("Way" to what exactly is a whole other discussion.) I don't think Christianity is a superior religion...
View ArticleMusic: What is it good for?
Today in one of my classes we were discussing what music is for. Why do we have it? How did it develop? Which came first: speech or song?I was reminded of the first episode of Michael Wood's The Story...
View ArticleWhat I mean when I say "God" January 2013
God, that's complicated!This is partially adapted, though different from, something I wrote a couple of years ago. I included a date in the post title, because I expect my concept of God to change over...
View ArticleMy new church is less sexist than my old church, but...
I shared an essay I wrote for Main Street Plaza called "Is sweetness next to Goddessliness?" on my Facebook page, where it generated some interesting comments. The essay discusses some of the sexism in...
View ArticleThe difference between insights and answers--or extreme agnosticism
Solstice commented on my post On (re)becoming a Christian: "I'm not sure I follow what you mean by the difference between an insight and an answer they seem synonymous to me." I was referring to how...
View ArticleIntroducing Heretic Sermons!
Heretic Sermons will be an ongoing series that needs a little explanation. It was a little over a year ago that I decided I was gonna dig in and take this whole Episcopalian thing seriously and see if...
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Thank God I'll never be a model.
A friend shared this TED Talk by model Cameron Russell, in which she discusses appearance and privilege in our culture. She's very honest about how cultural factors have worked in her favor, and about...
View ArticleRedefining sin
I heard about sin a lot when I was growing up. Lots of things were sins: stealing, disobeying Mom and Dad, going to the store on Sunday, swearing. And once adolescent hormones kicked in, when I thought...
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"Why don't you take up smoking like a normal person?" and other Lenten...
The first I heard of Lent was my sophomore year at ASU. I had a Catholic classmate who gave up caffeine for Lent, leading me to believe that Lent was mostly about giving up something you really like to...
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Pentecost
Red is the liturgical color of Pentecost, a color of blood and birth and life.Pentecost is when we celebrate the descent of the Holy Spirit to the earth, to abide with us in the absence of God the...
View ArticleCreating home in exile
I'm working on a paper on a Cuban immigrant composer living and working in New York, and blogging out some ideas in an attempt to work through some writer's block. What particularly took my attention...
View Articlebetween
There is a linebetweenconnection and intrusionand it is a barbed wire fenceThat says to most organisms"Keep out" and "Don't press there"But to seeds carried on the wind"Come over as you willand let the...
View ArticleYamantaka Mandala, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
I knew as soon as I saw itthat it was not supposedto be.Sand, cake-frosted and sugary, circledinto the universeBrilliance meant to blaze for only a moment, here preservedin garish permanence.Fixedthe...
View Articlefree verse
a kite will not fly without a tethershared linguistic roots bind ‘free’ and ‘friend’ and ‘friend’ came firstto be free is only to choose the bonds with which we will livewithout...
View ArticleDispersit
You and I have now been together long enough to go through three bottles of tequilalonger than it sounds sinceI mean the ones I buy in one point seven five liter casks. Cheaper per ounce that...
View ArticleIcarus
The trees are still green but yellow leaves are falling from them.Blown by the wind, they fall diagonally rather than vertically.They twirl and twirl and twirl until...
View ArticleAtomic Coffee, Moorhead, Minnesota
Espresso in handSparkles on his ass pocketsHe might hit on me
View Articlefree verse ii
a boundary is not itself a prisonManhattan’s architecture is so much more interesting than Omaha’s
View ArticleAre we not those friends?
I ran into my friend at the library yesterdayone of my no-bullshit friends —of course we were both at the libraryShe looked ashamed —howto convey that though I do appreciate the recognition that...
View Articlemeditation
If the Buddha were huge (or if I were tiny)I would climb his splayed thigh crawl along the hip crease nuzzle toward the navel untilI got caught under his belly rollThen I’d...
View Articlebacksliding toward enlightenment
I haven’t beenon my yoga mat for weeks.I haven’t beenpracticing my arpeggios.I haven’t beeneating my greens.I haven’t beendoing my Kegels.Hush.It’s all still there.And there is nodestination....
View ArticleAnd it occurred to her
And it occurred to her as the cold, hard wood of the pew dug into her shoulder blades and pinched off circulation at the backs of her thighs that the Church was not unlike a zombie: all of its parts...
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So, I’ve been backsliding (toward enlightenment, perhaps?). Life has been one fire erupting after another the last few weeks, and it’s been difficult to carve out space for poetry. But I started a...
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