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  • Holy Ground

    Holy Ground

    The letter above arrived first in my email inbox as a series of scanned pages sent by a gracious intermediary who asked if I would like the hard copy as well. I had no idea…

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    • by Leaf
    • Posted on December 19, 2020
    • 2 Comments on Holy Ground
  • Video version of “On Redemption” featuring music by Steve Schuch.

    Video version of “On Redemption” featuring music by Steve Schuch.

    • by Leaf
    • Posted on July 1, 2020
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  • A daughter of the trees reflects on the danger of property: an elegy, an homage, a prayer.

    A daughter of the trees reflects on the danger of property: an elegy, an homage, a prayer.

    When European colonizers came to this continent many centuries ago, the indigenous people here did not construe ground, trees, sky, water, animals as property—something objectified and quantifiable for the purpose of possession. They understood belonging…

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    • by Leaf
    • Posted on May 31, 2020June 1, 2020
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  • On Redemption

    On Redemption

    As humans, we inevitably experience harm: we feel hurt, we get hurt, and we hurt others. We free ourselves from this experience not by imagining we can escape harm but knowing we can heal it—…

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    • by Leaf
    • Posted on May 11, 2020
    • 15 Comments on On Redemption
  • A gracious healing

    A gracious healing

    The God of my childhood embodied justice. Cohesion. A God deeply troubled by iterations of human-wrought injustice. The ground of being riven by spilled blood. My early years rang with the sonorous cadences and exhortations…

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    • by Leaf
    • Posted on April 30, 2020May 2, 2020
    • 4 Comments on A gracious healing
  • My Grandmother’s Journal

    My Grandmother’s Journal

    I began this piece over twenty years ago and returned to it in 2014. I re-read it recently before sending it to a cousin, the namesake of my grandmother who is curious about the woman…

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    • by Leaf
    • Posted on April 13, 2020
    • 3 Comments on My Grandmother’s Journal
  • Listening to the body of the Earth, Passover 2020

    Listening to the body of the Earth, Passover 2020

    Drizzle punctuates the dun sky, appearing far less vernal than April 9th might wish. A cerulean ribbon aloft tender shoots of daffodils might yield more cheer but for Maundy Thursday and Passover combined, the weather…

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    • by Leaf
    • Posted on April 9, 2020
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  • Listening to the tree of my own knowing

    Listening to the tree of my own knowing

    I have never been a fan of the annual physical. Back in 1993, my partner at the time urged me to see her gynecologist. “You are long overdue an exam,” she scolded, so reluctantly I…

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    • by Leaf
    • Posted on April 2, 2020April 2, 2020
    • 2 Comments on Listening to the tree of my own knowing
  • Ruminating on the cusp of Spring

    Ruminating on the cusp of Spring

    I dwell in the both/and. Like many folks, news of the cornonavirus shapes the day, mostly emptying it, which gives me time to ruminate. As I ate lunch today, I began thinking about all the…

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    • by Leaf
    • Posted on March 20, 2020March 21, 2020
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  • The Call of the Tent

    The Call of the Tent

    This essay appears in the online journal of the Tennessee Humanities Council, Chapter 16. A writer considers the meaning of sacred space As a child in the South I would see them: giant tents erected…

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    • by Leaf
    • Posted on December 1, 2019December 1, 2019
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