In 2009, President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, with a simple, moving speech. He spoke of the challenge of…
Year: 2013
The Simple Judge
So I’m driving along Commercial Drive, and I’ve stopped at a pedestrian-controlled crosswalk. A young man starts to cross the…
Unveiling
What is unveiled at an unveiling? My brother Dave, my husband Chas, my two young adult children Hillary and Eli,…
Kingdom Without a King
First thing in the morning, I like to take a 3-block walk to the Grind Café and Gallery on Main…
Freedom to Repair
Unetaneh Tokef. An anonymous, medieval prayer-poem declaring the holiness of Rosh Hashanah, fountain of the New Year, the Day of…
World Cat Day
Traditional Jewish thought sees the whole world as a laboratory for learning. On the one hand, everything has value in…
Kitten Epistemology
Post-positivism. A theory of knowledge, underlying a research methodology. And I’ve been assigned to research it. So I slog through…
Researching God
Theist? Atheist? Agnostic? Don’t answer until you’ve done some rigorous research. That’s right, research: with a method, literature review, experimental…
Phenomenology of God
Philosopher Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) provides the framework for this exploration. In studying his own consciousness, Husserl recognized that we experience…