Pat Taub
A Troubling T-Shirt
This week I was in an office parking lot, approaching my car after an acupuncture treatment when I noticed a tough-looking guy wearing this T-shirt. Its hateful, menacing message rattled me. I traced it to an Internet website with similar menacing shirts. The image is below.
Motherland, new Sundance series
On a lighter note, I just discovered this very funny, irreverent British series about a frazzled mother trying to balance work and childcare. Julia, the protagonist, has to contend with a series of incompetent childcare aides and equally exhausted other mothers, who all live for their coffee klatches when the kids are in school. Laugh-out loud humor and a great escape from you-know-what.
The cast of “Motherland”
Full Moon Ritual Tonight
This evening I’ll be leading a house cleansing/empowerment ritual for a friend who is recently divorced. We’ll gather in her home with some of her close friends to sage her house as a symbol of purification, followed by empowerment tokens each woman brings to enhance the ritual. Afterwards we’ll toast with lots of bubbly.
The Migrant Families
Every day I grieve for these separated families and scream at the injustice represented by their forced separations. I want to find a way to get more involved. The administration continues failing to meet deadlines for reunification. The latest excuse is that many of these families are not eligible!
A rally protesting children separated from their families
Sister Megan Rice
Sunday I’ll be hosting Sr. Megan Rice, an 88 year-old peace activist nun who recently served two years of a three-year prison sentence for splattering “blood” and antiwar slogans on a nuclear plant in Tennessee, targeted because it holds enough highly enriched uranium to make thousands of nuclear warheads. She and the two priests involved in the action received early prison releases following an appellate court decision stating that the government had overreached in charging them with sabotage. Sr. Megan is in Maine to talk about her experience and to introduce the documentary film, The Nuns, the Priests and the Bombs. I’m prepared to be inspired!
Sister Megan Rice, jailed at age 85 for an antiwar action
