Daily Connector | Blessing in the Chaos | Submitted by Lavonne vander Zwaag
“Blessing in the Chaos” by Jan Richardson To all that is chaotic in you, let there come silence. Let there be a calming of the clamoring, a stilling of the voices that have laid their claim on you, that have made their home in you, that go with you even…
Daily Connector | Getting some fresh air | Erin Kelty
I have spent more time outside in the past 3 months than perhaps in the past 15 years. As a kid I played outside all day every day and could go a week without putting on a pair of shoes. I don’t remember any exact moment of transformation, but somehow…
Daily Connector | Summer, not normal | Jenny Campagna
There is no normal it seems to me with COVID19 and the next thing coming, whatever it may be. This week it is protests and violent police response as the dearth of national leadership is again spotlighted. In my mental health/grief interview with Mark, I talked of imagining fireflies of…
Daily Connector | Making yogurt again | Sarah Werner
Back in late March I was bemoaning on Facebook the constant lack of unflavored yogurt at the grocery store. Yogurt, plain, is a staple of my diet since I have it for breakfast every morning, and I was feeling disoriented enough with everything else. I didn’t want to lose yogurt…
Props, Presence, and Prayer
Like many of you, I have been doing a lot of listening these last few days, wary of adding my own voice in any way that would de-center the voices of Black people or other people of color. I have sat uncomfortably with the anger, sadness, grief, and terror that…