Leaving Familiar, Learning to Love New Places

I'm pretty sure no one calls New Jersey a wilderness, but given that it will be....


Tainted: Not the Grand Transition We Would Hope

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Prayer for Children Reclaiming Structures Meant for Climbing

This is a summer scene along the Harborway in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It both....


From Halifax to Havana and Back Again

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What is the Hokey Pokey All About?

When I was a social worker/home visitor and got paid for playing with toddlers,....


Abundance Scooped from Abundance: Reflections on Myanmar

homily delivered today at First Parish Church of Groton There is a line from....


A Nation Being Rebuilt: My Fortnight in Myanmar (poem)

To find the lost, To heal the broken, To feed the hungry, To release the....


Burma Reds (poem)

Bricks from the 9th century onward, the shape of pagodas and....


Accursed Temple of Bagan

While in the stunning Bagan region of Myanmar, the ruins of a kingdom that....


Barefoot Amid Monkey Poop in Myanmar

On Facebook, I posted the following: 777 steps up Mt. Popa, 777 steps down,....