Make Something
As usual, your gal Sarah here is full of reflections about 2023 and intentions for 2024. I don’t think there’s anything magical about January 1, but it’s simply another opportunity [...]
Opinions are Boring
It’s high school basketball season, and I’m organizing my life around my daughter’s home games. We’ve been sitting next to another family who we are just getting to know and [...]
Enough for the Winter
Anyone else feeling hibernation coming on? As usual, I turn to my favorite book in December, Gayle Boss’ All Creation Waits. It’s a portrayal of 25 different animals in winter and [...]
Get Quiet
“Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my [...]
Getting Sober
I went to another memorial today at The Lighthouse Mission. It used to be once a quarter, then every other month, and now it’s every month, many of the deaths [...]
Doing it for Love
I listened to this amazing podcast this week and wept at some of the stories Jack Kornfield told. One was about the poet, naturalist, and activist Gary Snyder who has been working [...]
We Don’t Heal Alone
“Resilience is best understood as a characteristic of communities rather than individuals. Resilience isn’t personal grit; it’s the capacity of a neighborhood or community to respond, mitigate, and adapt to [...]
Come Create Art and Community with Me
The climate crisis has weighed heavy on me the last few years. I spent years avoiding the headlines, not wanting to face it. Then having teenagers changed all that—it feels [...]
Commitments instead of Statements
Have you noticed how many people are putting out statements lately? This happened with Ukraine, Black Lives Matter, the Dobbs decision, and countless other milestones and conflicts in the last [...]
Getting Inspired is our Job
Friends, I am a broken record. I’m here to say—again!—that we can’t go very long without inspiration. And if you can’t see it lying all around you, decide to go [...]