by Susan | Sep 9, 2020 | inspiration, poem
Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell. As you ring, what batters you becomes your strength. Move back and forth into the change. What is it like, such intensity of...
by Susan | Aug 3, 2020 | birthdays, inspiration
August 3, 1858 Paul Sabatier “Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the harvest.” August 3, 1920...
by Susan | Aug 1, 2020 | inspiration, poem
I stalked her in the grocery store: her crown of snowy braids held in place by a great silver clip, her erect bearing, radiating tenderness,watching the way she placed yogurt and avocados in her basket, beaming peace like the North Star. I wanted to ask, “What...
by Faith Based Initiative | Jul 18, 2020 | Action Alerts, inspiration
Recent court decision ordered the release of children held in immigration custody due to risk of COVID. Several families are being released this weekend including pregnant women. They need to stay in SA for a short period of time before making the final leg of their...
by Susan | Jul 16, 2020 | inspiration
May we be blessed as vessels of healing and restoration. May San Antonio be a strong shelter and may all our residents find protection from COVID-19. May we become more mindful of others’ needs and always come together in a spirit of unity. May those who are sick,...
by Susan | Jul 4, 2020 | inspiration, poem
Not songs of loyalty alone are these, But songs of insurrection also, For I am the sworn poet of every dauntless rebel the world over. —Walt Whitman I see the dark-skinned bodies falling in the street as their ancestors fell before the whip and steel, the last blood...