Quote of the Day

When the tears were spent, I realized that I still grieved the old -- the faith community I'd lost, while I was glad to be free of its narrowness.  I missed the individuals I'd loved and who had loved me.  I grieved not only the lack of compassion for me and anyone else who didn't meet the right criteria for belonging but also for community members' inability to be gentle with themselves.

-- Anna Redsand, To Drink from the Silver Cup, p. 276

Quote of the Day

A healthy response from those who have, for whatever reason, lost family and/or community, is to create family, to find new community, in order to satisfy that basic peopling need.  And yet what we create, while it may in some ways be better than what we lost because we have chosen it, can never exactly replace what is gone.

-- Anna Redsand, To Drink from the Silver Cup, p. 121-122

Meeting Anna Redsand

I was pleased to hear author Anna Redsand speak last night and read from her memoir To Drink from the Silver Cup at the Out on the Lakeshore Community Center.  It was a pleasure to meet a "mother in the movement."