Kino Border Initiative Immersion Program Humanizes, Complicates Immigration Issue
They walk a rustic, sandy footpath toward countless unknowns, flanked by mesquite trees, their branches intertwining overhead. In the searing, dry days of summer these branches can offer life-saving shade from the brutal Sonoran Desert sun for those on this...
Food as a Pathway to Peace
Join us for the Pathways to Peace: Food as Relationship Retreat Jan. 24–26, 2025. Learn more and register on our website. “What would happen, for example, if we were to start thinking about food as less of a thing and...
Walking the Cosmos: On Creation & Grandeur
Traversing a Franciscan Hiking Route I’m fortunate enough to work for an employer with a structured (and mandatory) sabbatical policy, so over this past month, I’ve been enjoying the blessing of rest. There’s been plenty of reading, a surprisingly fruitful...
How Can Poetry Be Medicine for the Soul?
When I was teaching writing at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio while raising two teenagers, assisting in-laws who lived in Ohio move through their final years, as well as completing a three-year process of certification as a poetic medicine...
Using Breath to Increase Energy
Have you ever stopped to think about the power we hold in our breath? Think about how your breath changes with everything you do. When you run…. laugh…cry…. sing….work…. The breath is powerful and simply by changing the breath we...