by SB Rawz | Apr 19, 2021 | Our Web of Interconnection
The weather was beautiful this past weekend which made it a ripe time for visits with family and friends. Saturday, we ate on the patio of a restaurant owned by friends, a married couple who also runs a farm together. I ran several businesses with my former spouse so... by SB Rawz | Mar 22, 2021 | Our Web of Interconnection
I have a challenge for you this week: Answer the question “How are you?” honestly. I know, I know. The correct response, the expected response, the comfortable response for everyone involved is, “Fine, thanks; you?” And then the other person says, “Fine” or “Good” or... by SB Rawz | Feb 22, 2021 | Our Web of Interconnection
What does it mean – what does it look like, act like, feel like – to allow for rage and love at the same time? This is the question that Valarie Kaur’s moving and intimate book, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love has been inviting me to ask... by SB Rawz | Feb 1, 2021 | Our Web of Interconnection
I was just barely 13 when she was born, the grandchild of an unlikely friend. I suppose that made me her unlikely friend, I who was a random somewhat-older person who delighted her with pratfalls at her toddler command; who became the assistant leader in a Girl... by SB Rawz | Sep 14, 2020 | Our Web of Interconnection
It astonishes me sometimes – no, often – how ever person I get to know – everyone, regardless of everything, by which I mean everything – lives with some profound personal sorrow. Brother addicted. Mother murdered. Dad died in surgery. Rejected by their family. Cancer... by SB Rawz | Jul 13, 2020 | Our Web of Interconnection
In a notebook of ideas that stays open on my desk, I wrote sometime in the last few weeks, “What if the movement changed its language from “resistance” to “expansiveness” or “embracing?” Who knows what I was thinking when I wrote it down but I spend a good bit of time...