Bring Me Back Again?

Bring Me Back Again?

For over three decades, the soundtrack of my travel home to Honolulu that began as soon as the airplane landed on the coral reef runway and taxied toward the gate was the Beamers’ song, “Honolulu City Lights.”  The song is a wistful goodbye to the islands that would...
I Am a Woman Because I Do Womanhood

I Am a Woman Because I Do Womanhood

Parker Palmer once said that “to be fully alive is to act.” “I understand action to be any way that we can co-create reality with other beings and the Spirit,” he continued. “Action, like a sacrament, is the visible form of an invisible spirit, an outward...
Everywhere You Go, Be Who You Are

Everywhere You Go, Be Who You Are

It was a small story in The Washington Post in May 2015. A young man named Glory Aganze Barongozi spoke of his time in Baltimore as a refugee from Uganda, and how ready he was to leave as his high school graduation neared. He felt small in Africa. He felt smaller in...