by John Pitney | Nov 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
How do we welcome our innocent newborns to a Planet where once there used to be more wonder than now? The years of our lives have become a calendar for the destiny of Earth, framed by the greenhouse gas emission history we are plotting for good or ill. I was born in...
by John Pitney | Nov 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
Kathleen Dean Moore writes, in A Pine Island Paradox, “The most loving thing you can say to another person is ‘Look!’ And the most loving stance isn’t a close embrace, but two people standing side by side looking out on the world together. Because when we look, we...
by John Pitney | Nov 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
How do we make this world worthy of our children? I’m sure we’d all like to know. The way we’re going, more and more potentially great parents are choosing not to bear children because of who we’ve become and what we continue to do to our human neighbors and our...
by John Pitney | Nov 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
Several times already we’ve had the privilege of rising early and taking the little guy from his parents at 5:30 am to rock and hold him so Mother can rest and recharge between nursings and Father can catch some zzzzzz’s. At 2 days, I rocked him in the dark, listening...
by John Pitney | Oct 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
Our first grandchild was born July 12 and the whole universe blinked. This is the first I’ve blogged about him. Funny, you’d think I’d want to tell the whole world, right? But his story is for his parents first to tell. In a world where nothing, it seems, is truly...
by John Pitney | Sep 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
Last Thursday I was arrested. Along with 21 other Oregon clergy and faith leaders I received two citations at the Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters in Portland, Oregon: 1. “Failure to comply with lawful directions of a federal police officer.” and 2....
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