

Lent 2025 Day 40: Holy Saturday – The Waiting Between
“...I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the...


Lent 2025 Good Friday: Live, Lose, Love Out Loud
When I was 25, I was your classic angsty queer adult (and I use “adult” loosely). I was emotionally unavailable, moody as hell, and had...


Lent 2025 Maundy Thursday: Washed Feet, Open Hearts.
“About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and...


Lent Day 37: Golf Is a Sport That Helps Us Learn to Live Life
“Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to...


Lent 2025 Day 36: The Ticket to Ride
“When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.” —Maya Angelou My 5-year high school reunion. I think I'm 23 here. Let...


Lent Day 31: Decolonize Love
“The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves…” ― Paulo Freire Signing my niece's marriage...


Lent 2025 Day 30: Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself
"Check yourself. Sometimes you are the toxic person. Sometimes you are the mean, negative person you’re looking to push away. Sometimes...


Lent 2025 Day 29: Play the Ball Where It Lies
"Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots—but you have...


Fifth Sunday of Lent: Sacred Bodies, Misunderstood Hearts
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding… so must you know pain.” – Khalil Gibran It’s fascinating how...