Noah and Na'amah bounced from house to house for some time. They weren't always easy to host. They would wake loudly from bad dreams; they were alternately controlling and passive, overjoyed and immobile. The Urartians didn't know whether they should ask what Noah and family had experienced, or whether they should keep a polite silence. And Noah, after a while, didn't want to tell it. After all, no one could ever really understand what they had been through. It became a story mostly discussed inside the family, and periodically presented as a special event for wide-eyed school children.
Read moreWeek of Fire
It has been a week of quick values clarification – determining in 15 minutes what is valuable and what, when push comes to shove, simply is not. A week of letting go of stuff, of comforts, of certainty. Of saying goodbye to beloved homes, trees, familiar wildlife and uncatchable cats. A week of letting go and driving away.
Read moreResistance, Transformation, Hope and Words
The angel's suggestion that behind transformation lies language – that should mean something to us. If we want to mend the field, we start with language; we start with our words. Our words conjure a world. And we want it to be a world that we want to live in.
Read moreCreation Soufflé
But if we allow this part of our Sacred Myth, this part about all of it being God, all God, all the time; if we allow that to be "the greater story that is always happening," imagine how our relationship to this planet and to each other would shift.
Read moreThe Queen is in the Field
There is so much protocol to our traditional prayer, that it is nearly impossible for those not steeped in it to attempt it. We approach the Divine with the same complexity as we would having an audience with Queen Elizabeth: having to be scheduled and presenting ourselves at the right time and place, having to be announced, and then bowing properly and remembering to say "Your Majesty" the first time and "ma'am" every time after. And by the time we have made it through this trial, we can no longer remember what it is we had wanted to say, or we are too tongue-tied to say it.
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