“This wide, open place didn’t come easy. My heart has paid a long price for it. So I mean it when I say: I pray you find a Home here with us.” Part I Every second Thursday night, I set out the white cups, fill the kettle and line up the water glasses on the [...]
“If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is tied up with mine, then let us work together. ”– Lill Watson, aboriginal activist Why do I go? Why do I keep packing my pink suitcase and flying to the edges of our world, so [...]
” … I decided to let depression speak through my art …” -Mandy Thompson, Inciting Incidents Deep honesty moves me. I am thankful it does and I actually embrace the emotions that often come with encountering profound truths and sacred stories. So, when I recently read Mandy Thompson’s chapter “An Unlikely Gift” in the new book [...]
“I want to know your young and your old, your poets and your prostitutes. I want to talk with you through your ugly secrets and walk with you in your glory moments. I want to hold your hand.” By Idelette McVicker | Twitter: @idelette There was a son in my belly that day when I [...]
“Like a stranger in a crowd, she reached through life’s thick noise and laid finger on my skin, asking …” By Idelette McVicker | Twitter: @idelette vi. Reach: to move toward something in order to touch or grasp it Girl gets on a bus and travels three days across the country to reach a place [...]
