Yesterday morning I realized I was cracking up. Out running I reached the point of drenched detachment at which I could look at the last few weeks, and it wasn’t pretty. The weight of everything – political vitriol, conspiracy theories, denial of science, and overdue awareness of racial injustice – was keeping me up atContinue reading >>
Deep Breaths
I noticed it for the first time during the Exsultet at the Easter Vigil. Despite being focused on a lot of words and a lot of notes, despite being unnerved by singing to an empty chapel on what would have been one of the most well-attended nights of the Church year, I still registered theContinue reading >>
The Greatest Gift
Better exhausted in the evening than bored all day. I’m not sure if I came up with that myself or heard it somewhere, but I often repeat it as I’m crashing into bed at the end of a long day. My days are full of both commitments and excitement, and I’m lucky to wake upContinue reading >>
Performing Life
How often are you acting like yourself, instead of being yourself? That was a question I confronted during the first silent retreat I went on, when I was in college. Stripped of words (my usual tools in the effort to impress people) I realized that there was a difference between being myself and acting like myself. ToContinue reading >>
A Lent of Less
Around this time a few years ago I was trudging through winter weather to get to a rehearsal on a weeknight and I thought to myself “It’s amazing that we ask the same things of ourselves during cold New England winters as we do during the summers.” There is a reason some animals hibernate. TheContinue reading >>
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