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Why Mend?

Stitch by stitch, I’m learning to repair. My teachers are YouTube videos, vintage pamphlets, and octogenarian church ladies.  Mostly, I’ve learned by sitting down and working with my hands. I’m learning with my hands what I longed for in my life: to repair what is torn.

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It was a profoundly strange #PalmSunday. Cut down what you can. Sing to be brave. Pray to hold strong. I generally love the gutter punk theatre send up of a Roman Tribute parade that Jesus pulls off on Palm Sunday. You like conquering kings who show off their military hardwares and promise to make the empire great again? Cool, I’ll ride in on a borrowed donkey. But somehow today felt smaller, stranger, less audacious. I was tired of screens. We walked through our neighborhood and sang. Cut down some branches. Lashed them above our door. May plague pass over. #holyweek2020 #holyweekathome
#viewfromthepulpit now: Facebook live, twitter live, Zoom and nicely ask the neighbors to get off the wifi on Sunday morning. Pile of books, duct tape, clamp lamp, clothespins. Jesus just shouted from the mountain tops.
New rule: all dog walks on MANDATORY FAMILY OUTDOOR TIME at 4:30pm daily will be done in old Halloween costumes (for the dog, not us). #MBTA #orangeline Still wearing my @winterwalkboston hat because it’s brutally cold and to remind me that folks experiencing homelessness need our support and $$$, especially now. #galabear
#smoothies during the #apocalypse: 6 frozen blackened banana from our freezer, New England blue berries and cranberries, a finger of desiccated ginger (grated), old beet juice left over from latke-making in the back of the fridge, flax seeds that expired in 2018. Blend and enjoy between zoom calls while you plan for destruction and despair.
Today was beautiful & hard. I’ve got a smaller group of friends with whom I regularly pray. We gathered remotely because of social distancing and made communion with whatever we had at each of our homes. My wife grabbed crackers & #sorrel I had brewed around Christmas time from this recipe that @soulfoodscholar tipped me off to. And my beloved grabbed a #mended @heathceramics plate from our wedding china, my own hack cheapo #kintsugi. So here we are, as we say in the liturgy, “broken people eating broken bread” hoping that God will gather up the crumbs of our lives and make us new.
“#lavenderinfused bullshit: a blog post on supporting loved ones with #mentalillness.” Link in bio.
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