Tag Archives: conflict
FMM 8 15 2025 Thinking with the Heart
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” ~ Robert Frost. I can’t say that I have ever been very good at debating on the fly. Some people are quick, able to respond to taunts and jabs with a rapid response, cutting and accurate. Me, my best responses […]
FMM 10 13 2023 Make Love Not War
“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.” ~ Francis of Assisi. I have never been good in a fight. Physical fights were not allowed in our household growing up. When the church is a big part of your upbringing, ‘turn the other cheek’ and ‘a soft […]
FMM 5 1 15 May Day!
“Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.” ~ Rollo May. I love words. I encountered a new one the other day, ‘sonder’, which is a noun representing the realization that random people live a life just as complex and vivid as our own. Most of the time we are so […]
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