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Beginner's Heart
green grass, blue sky, sun like honey ~
By
Britton Gildersleeve
Spring is about growth. It’s full of religious celebrations that predate paper: Passover, Easter, Holi, the Spring Equinox, Makha Bukha, Bahá’í New Year, and many more. For me, spring is also about children. It’s about egg hunts — a leftover from BCE (Before Christian Era) — and candy in baskets and new clothes. As a…
talking about books: a tale of hope ~
By
Britton Gildersleeve
I spent an evening earlier this week with more than 30 women, in a lock-down facility, talking about the dancer Isadora Duncan. Part of an Oklahoma Humanities Council book group initiative, partners are provided with books and a list of ‘scholars’ who can lead the discussion. The women were a joy to visit. Smart, reflective,…
holy days, fire & faith ~
By
Britton Gildersleeve
It is Good Friday. It is Holy Week. It is Passover. And other faiths, too — more individual, more isolate — also bear witness to death and redemption. In California, a dear friend still mourns the death of his beloved. This is the anniversary of a death that came — as they often do —…
the world is not broken ~
By
Britton Gildersleeve
I’m working at letting go of perfection, the idea that the world is ‘broken,’ as Naomi Rachel Remen says. Stop to consider this: the world is NOT broken. The people who shout at cars that take their parking places? The people in the cars who take the parking places? There’s some reason for all of…
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