February 2025

In Krista Tippett’s words: “It is, admittedly, hard to write something...that feels fitting to the moment or wise.”  Yet, being Krista, she manages to do so, writing:

“This is an age of devastating tumult...Much is breaking. Much is being born. The two go hand in hand, and that is one of the deepest and strangest, most terrible and most redemptive truths of human reality...

...We need settled, grounded bodies and spirits to meet what is hard and hurtling and rise to what is beautiful and life-giving.... My heart breaks for the many human beings on the sharp edges of all that is breaking. We’re called...to care and protect, actively, as much as to calm. ...

There’s such a thing as “deep time” too—the view of time of the geologist...the long arc of the moral universe that Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of. Deep time doesn’t recognize the delineations we make in terms of years. It will see what is being seeded, what we tend across generations. What grows.

The news that is, as we say ‘breaking,’ is never seeing things whole.

Will you be my comrade in seeing things deep and whole and so keeping the possibility alive that wholeness and healing are what we grow and live into?”

I close this note with gratitude to Krista Tippett and to all of you caretakers, peacemakers, deep truthtellers, and brave, creative souls.

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