Clay: Pottery in the makingIf we in our lives are being formed like clay, what cycle of the process are you in? This poem and meditation is on looking at our lives through the metaphor of clay being formed into pottery. In this time of the Covid epidemic, we are all likely in new ways looking for meaning in the longterm and immediate importance of …

This episode is an open letter of thanks to a congregation I chanced to visit, and how I experienced welcome there. It is a prayer that Cultivating a Sense of Welcome become what we offer, what we do and who we live to be. What would it look like to intentionally place our lives at the center of this question, “How do I cultivate a sense of welcome…

I offer this episode in the time of the Covid-19 crisis, when we are practicing social distancing as well as creative ways to uplift one another. This message came to me at the winter solstice, as a kind of Christmas message, though I publish it now as a spring meditation in the time when many communities would be gathering with their communities, …

“Listen and attend with the ear of your Heart- Saint Benedict Over the last months, I’ve gotten to have many conversations and times to listen to the open-ended questions (queries) of my family and friends. In their listening to this podcast, they’ve been opened to initiating conversations with me about their own life paths, urgent wonderings and w…

This concludes the episode on Accompaniment in honor of my Friends, especially my friend Sadie, My spiritual elder at who’s birth home I got clear to publish the episode for my dear one Judi, Friend. Here are a few links to songs on the episode, that help me feel connected to lately to her light. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RKfxALkopOU https://m.…

Accompaniment and behold are terms that Quakers have used to uncover the process of spiritual friendship called “eldering”

To ring the bells that you can ring: My journey birthing triplets and finding my tone chime therapy. Listen to the chimes at the Emory Midtown Hospital Atlanta GA where I ring a chime I’ve rung for the last 5 years to celebrate and honor my trying journey of natural triplet labor and healthy births of my children, who as five year olds came to with…

Connect with me if you can:A poem and letter to the Ocean of Our People who have been and are coming into being, and inspired by the message given by Alice Fraser“And because only the unfinished can contain the infinite.” - The Alice Fraser TrilogyConnect with me if you can Because of the chords youʼve played in me by being youIʼd like to connect,I…

This episode explains a little bit more about what Friends have historically done to share their spiritual journey and messages outside of Friends Meetings and worship. This is followed by my first message I offer, a poem I wrote for a friend and for Friends, for my children and beloved spiritual companions. The poem is called Moth and Light. At ti…

This episode offers a description and some background on where I’ve come from and where I find myself now- a Friend called to Quaker ministry, who has said Yes the Calling these 10 plus years and actually for a lifetime of who I have always been. I hope to use this podcast venue as a new art from, that to be a way of sharing emerging ministry and m…