(Content warning: death, grief) One of my favorite quotes I’ve heard Reverend Carl give is from educator and activist Parker Palmer: “There are two ways for the heart to break: apart into many shards like a fragment grenade, or open into greater capacity so we can hold life’s inevitable tensions creatively, not destructively.” My father,…
Tag: winter solstice
Learning about the history of a word tells us a lot about that word’s meanings over the years. The word “bear” comes from a proto Germanic word meaning “brown thing.” The word “wreath” comes from the word “ridan,” meaning “to twist.” The word “Yule,” the old name for the Winter Solstice, comes from the old…