Tag Archives: social justice

What Guides Your Moral Compass?

Mine is guided by empathy.  There’s nothing necessarily wrong if yours is guided by your religion, but let’s be clear about what your religion teaches.  If your leaders are teaching you things like, “Hate the sin, love the sinner,” or that certain groups of people don’t deserve God’s grace, then maybe your religion isn’t trulyContinue reading “What Guides Your Moral Compass?”

One Nation

One Nation Ruled by the Minority Without liberty, without justice, without care for our most marginalized citizens. * One Nation Whose lawmakers Are bought and sold by corporate greed.  * One Nation With citizens crippled By insurmountable debt. * One Nation Dumbed down By conspiracy theories and misinformation. * One Nation Exhausted Because of aContinue reading “One Nation”

The Power of a Hero

When I was little, I desperately wanted a hero; someone who could rescue me from sadness, from shame, from worry about all of my young life’s traumas.  As a teenager, I often sought a hero in the form of a boyfriend. After all, don’t the movies tell you that a knight in shining armor willContinue reading “The Power of a Hero”

Is it over yet?

My last post was about some of the good of 2021 for me: the fact that running continued, and that racing in person kind of returned. I managed to achieve some unexpected goals as well. But this post is not about the happy. It’s about the exhaustion. If you want to sum up the culminationContinue reading “Is it over yet?”

Guilty as Charged

The jury got it right. Why does it feel like for the first time, a policeman will actually be held accountable for his wrongful actions? As my daughter says, the police are here to enforce the law, but they are not above it. I’m so relieved. I’m not joyous. I’m just able to breathe. ThisContinue reading “Guilty as Charged”

Just breathe…

Did you hear that? More importantly, did you feel it? It’s the collective breath of relief as the huge dark cloud that has enveloped my country started to lift on Saturday. What were you doing when you heard that the 2020 election had been called for President Elect Biden and Vice President Elect Harris? IContinue reading “Just breathe…”

Crossing my fingers…

This is election week in the United States. I’ve waited for this since November 8, 2016. And while I probably shouldn’t get political on my blog, I’m sure most of you are smart enough to figure out my political leanings anyway. I can’t ignore the impact our current administration has had on my spiritual well-beingContinue reading “Crossing my fingers…”