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This book recommendation came to me from my friends at Flamig Farm. I send it on to you with a holiday prayer that this New Year will be filled with the joy and rewards of good stewardship of our bodies and our planet home. Be well! Jeanne Dirt (and us) to the Rescue! We can do…
Holiday Message 2017 “A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind.”Leon Tec, MD, In Defense of Animals To all I carry in my heart, both near and far, I awakened from a dream in the early predawn this morning. In the dream, I was attending the funeral of an infant not my…
“We must be more than grateful for the service of our soldiers. As individuals and as a country, we must be worthy of their sacrifice.” Jeanne C. Folks, DMin, LPC
Last night was Maundy Thursday. In the Christian Tradition, of which I am a part, it is the night when we celebrate Jesus’ last night with his disciples before his arrest and crucifixion on Good Friday, looking forward to Easter. It is the night Jesus shared bread and wine with his followers to deepen their…
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”— Alice Walker
“When leaders of a country are afraid of the truth, it’s time for the country to be afraid.” Jeanne C. Folks, D.Min, LPC
This morning on CBS Sunday morning, Naomie Harris, staring in the powerful movie Moonlight, was interviewed. I found her reflective and very wise about risking connection. She was referring to the characters in the movie, but she was also speaking to the human condition when she said, “We all move through our woundedness in search…
2016 Holiday Season “Not being too certain that ‘never again’ can truly be achieved, I still believe that we must continue to educate the next generations about the dangers of wrongly understood nationalism.”Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, professor and Nobel Laureate. Died in July at the age of 87 How am I going to manage in…
We make our stand for love and inclusion every single day. It’s not one big thing. It’s the thousand little things done with fierce dedication to compassion.
I attended the Westport Writer’s Workshop this past Saturday. I wrote this during one of the intriguing exercises and thought you might like to read it. Jeanne What I Believe I believe we are built for wholeness Even if we spend our whole lives getting there Born whole – staying whole That seems like it…