The Soulistry Blog

Today is a day that must be remembered. It is the international Holocaust Remembrance Day and we must ...We must remember the horrors that happened when good people did not believe what was happening.We must remember the hatred and lust for power which resulted in...

I don't live in the United States. I have family there - have dear friends there - was born there - have neighbours / siblings / strangers I care about, there. What has been going on in that country, particularly lately in Minneapolis with protestors lawfully...

A YEAR AGO TODAY I posted this ... and today, one year later, it's not just the United States that faces all of this, but the world. On this first of the second 1460 days, it is still true.Tragically true.American friends.Canadian friends.Venezuelan friends.Iranian...

It's another day of cold darkness with teary-rain weather in many places.  It's another day of darkness and teary-memories as many remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. today, the third Monday in the month of January.   But instead of his murder being a sign that things...

A friend in Greenland ended her email today with these words: "God help us!" A reply from the United States to a FB post today, ended with these words: "God help us!"I've heard that same cry from friends in the United States ... Canada ... Ukraine ... Palestine ......

Laughter --- it is SOOOO good for the body and soul. Sadly, there's not been a lot of that these days. Politics ... anger ... fear ... seem to have taken over.Our soul needs regular doses of laughter!When my Dutch-born husband, Hans, was alive, there was a lot of...

Just when we think the bottom has dropped out of decency, compassion, integrity, you-know-who sinks even lower and ... he couldn't care less. His focus is acquisition --- acquisition of lands, their natural resources, power, money.And if human beings are acquired for...

Around the middle of January a few years ago, our local hardware store was packing up all of the Christmas things they didn't sell that year. Tucked into the corner was a little wooden white tree with lovely white branches. It had a really high price tag on it...

I love the word ‘epiphany.’    Epiphanies are those "ah-hah!" moments in life when we suddenly 'understand' … 'get it’ … 'gain insight' into the nature or meaning of something (or someone) we hadn't grasped or understood previously. Many around the world are...

Long ago, it is said, that a star appeared in the sky - a star that was unlike any other. All were amazed - and perhaps, even the lambs. Years and years ago, I made this banner for Epiphany, the Season of Light - which begins January 6th for many around the world.The...

Ahhhh, words - I love them.   Every year during the Season of Epiphany (the season in Christianity that remembers the star that is said to have guided the Magi to the Christ Child), I love to choose a "Star Word" which I hope will ‘guide’ me (as a star) in the coming...

It’s Twelfth Night!  Tonight! Twelfth Night is a festival for those following the Gregorian calendar that takes place on the last night of the Twelve Days of Christmas (January 5th) and marks the coming of the Epiphany tomorrow - January 6th - for those following the...

Merry Twelfth Day of Christmas! We've come to the end of the Twelve Days of Christmas and it's time to  "drum possibilities" because on this day, as the song goes, the drummers were drumming. Why?  What?  Music ethnologists remind us that every culture has utilized...

Have you ever noticed a mysterious series of letters and numbers which looked like a math equation, inscribed in chalk over a doorway (or at your church, or at the home of a friend) at/around January 6th, and wondered “What is that?” It's called "Chalking the Door."...

On this day, the Eleventh Day of the Season of Christmas (part of the Twelve Days of Christmas), the Pipers were piping! I was intrigued by the story of Scottish Infantryman and bagpiper Daniel Laidlaw who became known as the Piper of Loos in the Battle of Loos in...

Merry Christmas - Tenth day!On this day of Christmas, the lords are a-leaping! Leaping?   Ahhhh, of course!   They were young.    But, what about those who never could or can no longer physically leap?  'Leaping' can involve more than 'physical' movement. Leaping can...

Merry Ninth Day of Christmas! Yes, we're still in the Season of Christmas and we've just begun a new year.   What of this New Year? What of the future?  The 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature winner, Samuel Beckett, wrote: "Dance first.  Think later.  It's the natural...

Happy New Year! A new year has begun!  People around the world are hoping, dreaming of, praying for a better year in health, finances, politics, the economy, employment relationally and an end to poverty, war, homelessness, addiction, loneliness.  What will we...