As a trans woman, I love the ways we sparkle; the ways we twirl. This is how I enter the world, and I've paid a high price for it my entire life.

Improbably, the wind-blown seed found its way here, to a long, beautiful stretch of land, but one that was hot, dry, and arid.…

…it is enough to release the piercing frigidity, the brittle rigidity of ice— and embrace the versatile, vital, blessing, bathing, embodiment of water.

When the storm is powerful, we need each other to weather it.

At any moment in our lives we have a choice about how to inhabit the world.

With appreciation to Timothy Snyder’s On TyrannyAs fear abounds, may courage as well. In these times, we know we will need not to turn away nor surrender in advance. In the coming years, when asked to turn away, to focus only on our own survival and to disregard our neighbors's—Knowing the...

Some years are hard. Some holidays won’t feel jolly. Some days are best kept In quiet contemplation. But none of that makes this time less holy. None of that makes you less worthy…

What if each of us made a lifetime commitment to get free and to bring others with us?

We won’t know how the story ends until we get there, but we can decide what words we use to write those stories.

Choice by choice, we make an effort to live out what we say we want, and who we claim to be.

Today in UU congregations all over the world, people will gather in an effort to live into, as best as we can, what we profess about placing love at the center of all we do.

Hope is challenging, if not impossible, to grasp alone.

Hug the prayer before it leaves your body. Float it along like murmuring leaves.…

Liberation is the product of freedom.

Holy one, for you I will watch and wait.

Anger is not at all what people think it is. Anger has been kind and caring to me.

Joy arises like a gift, beyond my own deserving.

The old story of the nativity speaks to us anew

Let our rest be a resurrection. Let the veils be lifted so we can feel, see, taste, and smell the power of our rested selves.

Rest isn’t a luxury, but an absolute necessity if we’re going to survive and thrive. Rest isn’t an afterthought, but a basic part of being human. Rest is a divine right. Rest is a human right.