100 day challenges are a useful way to explore activities and/or to develop new habits. This particular challenge combines noticing various things that we appreciate in our surroundings, and taking a short time each day to draw them. This is not a challenge about being a "good artist" but rather a way to encourage the […]

Inspired by a video of a lone dancer at a music festival. He's a weirdo, a lunatic, someone with a broken view of the world. But then a leader appears, someone who recognizes the possibility of joy, and joins with the first person. Suddenly, the rest of the crowd sees that this isn't some kind […]

In school we learn about Martin Luther King, Jr., and that might be it for Black history. You probably know of Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, and Rosa Parks. There are […]

This week is our next installment of Atheist YouTube! We'll be watching the video "Dangerous memes | Dan Dennett" from the channel TED. Here's the description they gave for this […]

I will read the children's story from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling. This story is a coming-of-age tale, a Hero's Journey of the old tradition, and an account of […]

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion measures have been put in place to ensure access to education, government programs, jobs, etc. for disadvantaged groups such as women, people of color, queer people, […]

"Everyone wants a revolution. No one wants to do the dishes." --Dorothy Day We have little control over how our nation allocates labor and resources (but use what you have! […]

We all sustain emotional wounds. Failure, guilt, rejection, and loss are as much a part of life as the occasional scraped elbow. But while we typically bandage a cut or […]

I will read the children's story from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, about how the first animals came to be domesticated. I hope you will forgive the improbable prehistory […]