December 2025 – Peacemaker Priestess

THREE! TWO! ONE! Happy New Year of Peace!

What surprises, adventures, challenges, and wishes will the New Year hold for us? With resolutions and intentions, we have the opportunity to view the year as a new beginning, a clean slate on which to write a new story. Rather than our same resolutions, by which I mean new solutions to old problems, what if we were to focus on real problem solving for ourselves and our world? What would it be like to enter the New Year, if we didn’t see ourselves as escaping from 2025, but rather as fueling our hearts with the lessons we’ve learned about our gifts and where they’re needed? What if all of our intentional solutions for the world in 2026 were Love and Peacemaking?

Traveling Gladly Beyond #2

In 2025, on a trip to Antarctica with my friend Faye, we polar plunged. I’m calling this Series, “Gladly Beyond” from a line in an e.e. cummings poem “somewhere I have never traveled, gladly beyond.” Gladly Beyond! There is so much to this world. Let’s Leap!

On Thursday, December 18, this year, a community of Clergy and members of their congregations gathered for the Takery. Luckily, it wasn’t bitter cold, just wintery. We do this on the third Thursday of every month. I can’t even tell you how many years we’ve done it. The Takery started in Sunbury as an outlet for a close-knit group of clergy: Lutheran Pastor, Rabbi, President of the Islamic Center, and me, who at that time was the minister at the UU congregation. Rabbi Nina loves to bake so she wanted to open a Bakery that was a gift. The rest of us came along, as we always did. And now there are more of us. The community of the helpers continues to weave itself into something new as more of us gather to take part. For a long time there’s been a second Lutheran Pastor. Now, there’s an Episcopal Priest who’s become an active member.

When the Moons make Peace and Tarot Calls On Delight

Traveling Gladly Beyond #1

In 2025, on a trip to Antarctica with my friend Faye, we polar plunged. It’s astonishing how similar my avatar (to the right), designed by Nanso Cleaver many years ago, presaged this photo. I’m calling this Series, “Gladly Beyond” from a line in an e.e. cummings poem “somewhere I have never traveled, gladly beyond.” Gladly Beyond! There is so much to this world. Let’s Leap!