Liberal and Compassionate
Ahh, Facebook, you sly devil, you. I thinks you've gone and done it again. You've changed things on me, just when I least expect and just when I thought I was beginning to settle into the new from the last time you upset my ol' apple cart. I got a message...
Spring Break & Looking Ahead on JWG
No foolin,' today's the first day of April and the weather here and for almost all of March has been more like summer than spring. And then, there was winter, which failed to deliver much of a chill, giving us instead sprinter. Nontheless, I'm...
“Embraceable,” A Film About Williams Syndrome
-In honor of National DisAbility Awareness Month (March)- "It always angered me that people with disabilities never got good lighting, they never got good photography and they never got good cameras," Kent says. "So I just went out and bought an old...
DisAbility Dialogues, Part III: The Things People Say–in Church
Grasping a few stolen moments, I busily typed away, entering into the computer the volunteer protocol for setting up communion in our small Lutheran church (ECLA). C. was new there and already active. She stopped and chatted and then, cocking her head to the side, she...
The Why of Resistance
"Why?" Two friends and I have asked on multiple occasions during separate gatherings with each other: We know that our spirtual practices of yoga, meditation and journaling--throw in walking in nature, etc.--serve us greatly. They help keep us clear,...
Levity: John Wood & Paul Harrison @ Frist Center
One never knows what their going to see at Frist Center for the Visual Arts' Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery. Something different. For sure. Always. "Answers to Things: John Wood and Paul Harrison," had me cackling with its' warped yet...
DisAbility: A Dance with Diversity
I was born a triangle. A triangle in a family of circles and squares. There are memories of this dynamic coursing through my familial childhood memories, in preschool, kindergarten, elementary and boldly in middle school. And, oh, gawd, most definitely in high school....
