The relationship of humanity to the natural world, or the wilderness, has been varied throughout history. The church sometimes saw the wilderness as something to conquer and sometimes as something to fear. As we became aware of our destructive nature, or our capacity to sin against God’s creation, we began to address our relationship with nature in a different way. Some think the only way is to preserve and view creation from a distance. Recently, there has been more conversa

I've been having a lot of weird dreams lately, most of which I don't remember or remember only the smallest of details. Frequently I just wake up with a sense of discomfort. I have more memories than usual of a recent dream. I was in Scotland, and I ran into my father (dead) and cousin, and then my aunt (dead) and my cousin's wife. Then suddenly, I was in China. Even though I was in a restaurant, the waitstaff was most uncooperative, and it became a trial to try to sit and ea

I love autumn. For some reason, this season shakes me from the oppressiveness of summer, the heat drenched days that make everything seem slow and cumbersome and marks an end to that strange liminal time between summer break and back to school. Back in Chicago autumn did not last nearly as long as it does here in Delaware - I enjoy the crisp air and bursting colors of the leaves. We cannot forget the gourds and mums - and yes the pumpkin spice anything! It shows us that thing

Last weekend I served as parliamentarian for my first zoom conference. They've been planning this conference for months. How do we do it as legally as possible? The first business action was to approve a bylaw amendment allowing virtual meetings. How do we vote? Some votes could be done with yes/no buttons. Some votes had to be anonymous, so we needed to use polls. But then we had to move visitors and other non-voting people into a separate "room" while the voting took place