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In the mid-1980s while working at St. William Church in Louisville, I was involved with the Sanctuary Movement. The church offered hospitality to a couple from El Salvador, Manuel and Maria Elena. They were the…
Category: Friends
Share the Wealth with Magan Wiles: Decolonizing Tango
Three days after the video of George Floyd’s murder went viral, I saw a video on Facebook of my friend Jay standing at a busy intersection in LA, holding up a sign that said “where…
A Youth
The Daily Mailby Hedy Epstein In those first years of the Nazi regime, it was hard for me to grasp the import of politics writ large. However, I would soon come face to face…
A Yogi
Breakdown Precedes Breakthrough Graham earned enough to be under the taxable limitBecause he didn’t want to pay for war He couldn’t say “No” when someone asked“Would you help us fight back?” He gave and gave…
Share the Wealth with Elizabeth House: Stumbling Through the Writing Process Energized by Diet Pepsi and Peer Pressure
“You don’t know what you don’t know.” Elizabeth House was told this once while working in a facility where the residents were struggling with different areas of addiction. She learned in that experience, and many…
Share the Wealth with Lois Aceto: “Committed to Truth and Compelled to Justice”
My friend Lea Koesterer suggested her friend Lois for one of our evenings, so I am glad to pass along the following from Lea– Lois Aceto, a Racine Dominican Sister, is a seasoned social justice activist. Her…
Share the Wealth with Carol Mock–Beauty Draws the Eye: Daylilies and the Limits of Finitude
Carol Mock has been growing daylilies since 1996, when she wandered into a garden club sale at the Missouri Botanical Garden. The club was (and is) called the Greater St. Louis Daylily Society. She purchased…
Share the Wealth with Rachel Dratnol: Finding “Something Good” in the midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic
During this Share the Wealth, I will be sharing my experiences with writing “I See You” during the COVID-19 pandemic. I wrote the piece in the first few weeks of the pandemic as I was…
A Love Letter to Grief by Jessi Dyer
Grief you motherfucker, You robber of joy, You thief in the night, Stealing and killing. Burning my village to the ground. Grief, you backpack full of rocks, You unrelenting burden I bear Just when I…
Playing Ophelia Helped Lindsey Navigate Her Own Grief
My comrade and teacher Lindsey Trout Hughes was published yesterday in Catapult … incredible writing, with more to come…