Teresa Honey Youngblood

Teresa, wearing a large straw hat in the sun, is holding an enormous colorful bouquet of dahlias.

Teresa Honey Youngblood is a credentialed religious educator and the Family Ministry Coordinator for Soul Matters. She homeschools her children from a UU faith perspective, and you can download the free book she wrote in 2017 about liberal religious homeschooling. She loves hearing how folks—especially educators—are putting their UU values and learnings to work in their communities. And she loves the sweet peppers, bumblebees, and neighbor kids in her neighborhood community garden.

From Teresa Honey Youngblood

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A small child, back to camera, in a garden.
The Growing Season

Teresa Honey Youngblood

From Braver/Wiser
There is relief and remorse equally in my heart as the growing season comes to a close.
Two children run -- one is mid-jump -- through an alley, smiling.
Blessed Are the Magic-Makers

Teresa Honey Youngblood

From Braver/Wiser
We we had to pick our way through sand spurs to get to the swimming hole. Behind us were rattlesnakes. What did the youth do? They started playing.
The open back of a yellow moving truck, pakced with cartons and boxes.
Home, Again

Teresa Honey Youngblood

From Braver/Wiser
People move places....and yet, we carry a constancy: the still, quiet voice within.
A hand, holding a safety pin, causes a water balloon to burst; background is a sunset.
God and Guns

Teresa Honey Youngblood

From Braver/Wiser
I know deep in my spirit that I am held by the Mystery; part of the Mystery and witness to it; an agent of stardust whose perception of the world might ...
An outstretched arm, with dark skin, holds an orange.
Mrs. Cash's Oranges

Teresa Honey Youngblood

From Braver/Wiser
Liking somebody, even loving somebody, is not enough to protect them from shade that you cannot even see, much less understand.
From the back of an open vehicle, a man hands a swaddled infant into a woman's waiting arms. Photo taken post Hurricane Harvey.
Meeting the Monstrous Beast

Teresa Honey Youngblood

From Braver/Wiser
Pray, if you pray. Send love and money, too. We will be rolled and covered, but we will rise and carry others with us....
A Black man bends over a raised bed filled with chard, with more garden beds visible in the background.
Green Beans

Teresa Honey Youngblood

From Braver/Wiser
Light We Seek, wherever I am on the journey toward wholeness for all of us—that is, toward racial equality—help me to forgive myself and others for...
Two artist's models (faceless wooden figures) caught frozen in a fight.
Infighting Is Easier

Teresa Honey Youngblood

From Braver/Wiser
“We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.” — Author unknown Standing roadside, stranded,...
A delicate spider web stretches across the frame, as a blurred person is visible in the background.
Tiny Deaths

Teresa Honey Youngblood

From Braver/Wiser
“Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we kept fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.” —John Updike, “Tuesday, and...
The edge of a shopping cart in the foreground, as if taken from the handbar, and blurry shelves of groceries on either side
Somebody Like That

Teresa Honey Youngblood

From Braver/Wiser
“Did that man just strap a gun to his belt?” My 10-year-old squinted, looking across the parking lot of the grocery co-op. I had seen it, too: a...

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