In Praise of Bitterness

In Praise of Bitterness

When I was a child I loathed the bitter foods that our cook served up several times each week. Karela, also known as bitter gourd. Tittori—a variety of bitter lentil. Methi bhaji, a particularly mouth-puckering species of spinach. Bitter foods had their place in my...
Why Healing Matters

Why Healing Matters

Unhealed wounds leave us vulnerable to manipulation. At their extremity, unhealed wounds are portals through which ideologues and fundamentalists (of every stripe) recruit, program, and weaponize people to serve their own agendas of dominance and control. Healing is a...
How to Heal a Fractured Society

How to Heal a Fractured Society

{Listen to the audio version of this post, here.} From time to time, my beloved readers write in with questions that are weighing on your hearts, or occupying your thoughts in significant ways. Thank you, dear Claudia, for this thoughtful inquiry, and for sparking the...