Gratitude/997
Thanks to Trish and Annie for hosting tonight’s sharing on accompaniment; to Marty King for testifying about being on Arco those last weeks 20 years ago; to each person who read aloud, listened, spoke and/or opened up to her…
Category: Friends
Share the Wealth: Stories of Accompaniment from The Book of Mev
In a notebook I recently wrote the following about my novel, Dear Layla Welcome to Palestine: There’s so much accompaniment taking place: Internationals accompanying the Palestinians in Gaza The Palestinians accompanying the internationals Henry accompanying Josh…
Debts No Honest Man Can Pay
Colin Shevlin, evoking Springsteen, Nebraska album, circa 1982; photo by Alexis Mary Lassus
Your True Names
for Chris Wallach
Reading Dear Layla/2
One of the many pages I marked The beauty of this expression of love… –Chris Wallach
Reading Dear Layla/1
Ale Vázquez texted me the following photos and comments I understand this and feel it like an aching in my spine
A Frenzied Gut
Just got back from a weekend retreat in the mountains where I devoured Dear Layla: Welcome to Palestine. I’m so grateful for you and your recommendation. There was so much I needed to connect with….
Share the Wealth with Lynette D’Amico: Road Trip
“Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world…
How to Live
Jesus had his devotees Dipa Ma had her devotees Pat Geier has her devotees Jesus sat with people Dipa Ma sat with people Pat Geier sits with people Jesus placed his hands on someone in…