Aren’t we much more likely to survive or overcome, if we are cared for and supported?
I guess its that whole idea about needing a reason to live.
Genuine community is precious.
Archive for April, 2008
Check out this article on the choices women inside prison have to make in order to receive treatment and be reunited with their children:
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_8969528?source=most_viewed#top
Story of my life: my plate is always fluctuating between full and overflowing. Maybe one of these days I will learn to slow down more. I swear, its on my list of things to do.
In the meantime, I have started contributing to $PREAD magazine. A story that I am currently working on is taking up most of whatever free time I have left. Its all a work of love, and therefore I am fed by the work.
As part of the process, I have connected with Father River Sims, the punk priest of the Polk. I feel an affinity with him – and am inspired and humbled by his way of life as a Catholic Worker – Dorothy Day Style. Though I do not share his religious path, we do share the combination of spirituality and harm reduction. As harm reduction has become a main kernel of my life philosophy, meeting someone who is living the work (which is also a work of love) is pretty refreshing…even and especially as we share so much of the same anger.
Check out his webiste: www.temenos.org
