Share the Wealth with Christina Gebel: “Hello, God. I’m Not You.”
In the summer of 2022, I found out I was not God. It might sound like a silly conclusion to come to, or a good one if I’m an otherwise self-absorbed, prideful narcissist. Whatever I…
Category: Gatherings
Share the Wealth with Sarah Bollinger: Pottery – A Creative Practice of Embodiment
I came back to pottery at the beginning of 2021 after a long break. I’m a psychotherapist, a recovering academic, a deep feeler, and a chronic over-thinker, which means that I often spend long hours…
Finding Equanimity: Share the Wealth with Andrew Wimmer on Sunday 6 August
At the beginning of this calendar year I undertook to write something more or less daily and to post it to a Substack page. Some political, some personal. I saw it mostly as a way…
Share the Wealth with Katrina Becker and Jonna Caraccio: The Glories of Friendship
While many of us are all too happy to leave our awkward high school selves firmly in the past, every once in a while we come across parts of that life experience we’re grateful to…
Share the Wealth with Cami Kasmerchak: The Good Grief Project
There is a quote from one of my favorite poets, Buddy Wakefield, that I sometimes mis-remember. My version of his words has to do with creating safe passage through our minds, which, in my opinion,…
Share the Wealth with Cami Kasmerchak: The good grief project
Grief can be a lonely experience, but it doesn’t have to be. Sometimes we don’t talk about grief because it makes us uncomfortable or we don’t know what to say. The good grief project was…
Share the Wealth: Gratitudes and Aspirations
The last week of the year is a fine time to look back on our occasions for gratitude these past 52 weeks and to look ahead to our aspirations for 2023. Join us Wednesday 28…
Autumn Merton Hour with Rocco Erker: Love, War, and a Vocation
Join us for our fourth Zoom gathering this year to explore the work of Thomas Merton—Sunday 20 November7 p.m. Central TimeEmail me for URL: markjchmiel@gmail.com Rocco Erker has been a lifelong reader and student of Thomas…
Starting in Early January 2023
14,000 Things to Be Happy About: A Class in Reading, Writing, and Sharing
Share the Wealth with Katrina Becker and Natalie Long … Love: A Chit-Chat Apostolate–Dorothy Day and Catherine de Hueck Doherty
Born a year apart, and passing away within five years of one another, the twentieth century witnessed the inspired lives of Dorothy Day and Catherine de Hueck Doherty, two luminous figures of contemporary Christianity. These…