Barbara Kingsolver

The Phoenix Process: An Easter Reflection

Apr 1, 2024

Holidays and Holy Days, Love and Justice, Spirituality, Unitarian Universalism, World Religions

Barbara Kingsolver, Easter, Elizabeth Lesser, Hero’s Journey, Phoenix process

Elizabeth Lesser discusses the “Phoenix Process,” likening life’s transformation to the Hero’s Journey seen in various cultures’ stories. She encourages embracing difficulty to emerge stronger. Easter symbolizes renewal amidst chaos, mirroring narratives of freedom and love rising from turmoil. Barbara Kingsolver emphasizes finding joy amid despair, echoing the resilience of the phoenix.
Motherlove

May 10, 2020

Aging and Staging, Holidays and Holy Days, Spiritual Biography, Spirituality, Wellness

Barbara Kingsolver, Cheryl Richardson, Mother’s Day, motherlove, Renee Trudeau

From the Washington Post comes an article entitled, “Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words,’” and in part it says: The traditional view is that words can’t survive for more than 8,000 to 9,000 years. Evolution, linguistic “weathering” and the adoption of replacements from other languages eventually drive ancient words to extinction, just like the dinosaurs of…