Category: Love

You are supplied for today and all of your tomorrows

As a fun experiment, I’ve recorded myself reading this essay. Listen below—in three parts—or simply scroll down to read.


Last spring, before I headed to the trailhead of the 800-mile Arizona Trail I was about to thru-hike, I loaded up my water supply to full capacity: 6 liters.

I wasn’t sure what water sources would be like nor how frequently I’d come across them, so I wanted to err on the safe side.

Four of those liters were easily accessible while hiking: two gatorade bottles and two smart water bottles.

The other two liters were stored in a Platypus—a clear, flexible water container—which lived deep in the back of my pack. It was not easily accessible while hiking, and in my mind I thought of it as my “emergency water.” Just in case.

After the first two days, I’d crossed enough flowing streams to know that two liters of emergency water was overkill. There was no reason to be carrying all of this dead weight! Read more

Pillars of a Season of Moral Repair

Below is a recent email and video from 2020 presidential candidate Marianne Williamson that I want to share here:

Dear Rebecca,

With the unveiling of the Whole Health Plan yesterday, we have established the pillars of a season of moral repair. Through it, we will harness the power of American decency in service to the healing of our country.

The pillars of a politics of conscience alter the prevailing political, social and economic patterns that dominate America, returning us to our deepest democratic roots and humanitarian principles. 

The pillars are: 

An agenda for economic justice…
We will repair the damage done by trickle-down economics.
READ PLAN

A Department of Children and Youth…
We will repair the damage done to millions of traumatized children.
READ PLAN

Mass mobilization to reverse climate change…
We will repair the damage done to the earth.
READ PLAN

A Department of Peace…
We will repair the damage done to America’s moral authority around the world.
READ PLAN

Reparations…
We will repair the damage done by historical wrongs.
READ REPARATIONS PLAN | READ NATIVE AMERICAN JUSTICE PLAN

The Whole Health Plan…
We will repair the damage done by an obsolete healthcare system that treats symptoms but not cause.
READ PLAN

From free college tuition to a removal of the college loan debt to universal healthcare to the expansion of Social Security to the adoption of a Universal Basic Income, we will transition from an economic to a humanitarian bottom line. We will make this question the core principle of all public policy: What is it that would help people thrive? Thus we will pave the way to greater peace and prosperity for all.

Turning love into a political force is not a pipe dream; it is simply a choice. These are extraordinary times and we have it within us to respond to them in extraordinary ways.

As your president, I will make sure we do. On January 20, 2021, may the healing begin…

With love,
Marianne