At last week’s Community Dinner, one of the new people there mentioned that at one point he was homeless for two months — kicked out when his new lease came due, as a result of sticking up for a neighbor when the landlord was not doing needed repairs. But, he continued, a new friend sheltered […]
Read MoreI worry about my son Sean and his family in Acton, Massachusetts; I worry about my sisters and brothers and dear friends up and down the east and west coasts. As the nation withdraws its blood from the extremities in response to gradual or onrushing calamity, can this interior heartland beat strongly enough to receive […]
Read MoreSaturday afternoon, evening, and Sunday morning, inside the safe, hallowed ground of Oakwood Retreat Center near Selma, Indiana, I sat in circle with six other elders plus one beautiful young man who used to work as a hospice nurse until it was corporatized. Andy calls himself a “grief-monger,” and has been thinking, dreaming, and digesting […]
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