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Can Radical Empathy Turn the Tide?

I spent the Labor Day weekend at my country retreat in midcoast Maine where I own a cottage on a quiet country road sprinkled with modest homes.  I make a practice of taking daily walks on this road, which I like to think of as my walking meditations.  On Saturday I stopped in my tracks after noticing a flag at a home’s entrance. The words [...]

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Living in Scary Times

“I’m terrified the escalating war in the Ukraine will become nuclear.”  “I’m frightened of the climate my children/grandchildren will inherit.”  “It’s so depressing to see abortion rights being chipped away.” These are among the comments I hear from friends, who, like me, worry about the future.  We live in scary times.  [...]

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Rest is Resistance

Tricia Hersey, author of Rest is Resistance, makes the bold claim, “Rest saved my life.” Hersey’s book was a Christmas present from my younger brother. We come from a family of workaholics, where our father labored in his office for long hours, while our mother exhausted herself with her endless household chores. We were taught that [...]

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Our Missing Hearts

This past weekend I devoured Celeste Ng’s dystopian, suspense novel, “Our Missing Hearts.” When I finished the book, I sat quietly, reflecting, arriving at the troubling conclusion that the dark world Ng describes is at our door. In Ng’s story, Asian Americans are scapegoated.  As our government’s verbal attacks on China increase, [...]

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We Won’t Go Back!

Friday morning, I was driving with the car radio on, blissfully contemplating my summer weekend when my reverie was interrupted by a news flash that the Supreme Court had declared Roe v. Wade unconstitutional.  I screamed in outrage before erupting into tears, crying for college friends who had back-alley abortions when abortions were illegal.  [...]

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The Week I Plunged into Despair

Last week was not a good news week for me. It left me full of despair. I agonized over the Biden’s administration failure to advance their social programs designed to help those in need, while increasing oil drilling in defiance of climate change.  To make matters worse the saber rattling over Putin’s troops on the Ukraine border, kept [...]

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Celebrating Feisty Old Broads

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day. These immortal words of Dylan Thomas are a suitable motto for Feisty Old Broads, older women who reject the stereotype of the accommodating old lady.  The FOB’s are women who are fearless in their individuality. They speak truth to power, laugh a lot, have [...]

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The Older Woman Warrior

Who’s the older woman warrior? She’s the older woman, who believes in doing her part to make her community and the world a kinder, more just place. She cares deeply about the planet her children and grandchildren will inherit. She’s not afraid to stick her neck out. She figures she doesn’t have much to lose given her advanced age.  [...]

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Earth Day, Fifty Years Later

GUEST POST by JANET WEIL On my fifteenth birthday, the U.S. environmental movement gave me the gift of a lifetime: Earth Day! Knowing my love of the natural world, my mother (a teacher) arranged for me to attend the rally at Portland (Oregon) State University. My birthday presents were stacked next to my breakfast, and one was a lovely tan [...]

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