Beauty and Truth in the Grey Matters

I am at a retreat as I write these words. Specifically, sitting on a sturdy porch rocker, on a hand hewn-looking log porch, overlooking rows of Aspen and evergreen in the foreground, and a surreal panorama of the Rocky Mountains in the distance, all snow capped and shrouded in yet more layers and layers of […]

PODCAST- Justin Jones, Sherrill Auker & a little thing they like to call “Seed Life”

^They say life on the farm is kinda laid back… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHhsmpOzttY Not that this has anything to do with the interview. But hey, John Denver. How can you go wrong? Ok, where were we? Oh yeah. podcast. Meet Justin & Sherrill. He’s the Spiritual Formation Pastor at Eastern Hills Church in Buffalo, NY and she’s […]

When the Words Juuuust Won’t Come…

Do you ever feel like you’ve just run out of things to say?Like the words are out there, in this nebulous cloud, just kind of swirling and spinning round and round, baby, right round, like a record baby… … but they’re just beyond your reach? Taunting you, like a bad 80’s song? You want to […]

PODCAST- When Hope Seems Lost… Tracking It Down with Sarah Beckman

It’s either gonna get better… or it’s gonna get better. Pithy? Perhaps. But a deep and powerful truth, no matter what you’re going through. Of course, tell that to someone who’s truly suffering. Somehow the pat answers don’t sit too well. And yet… there’s something in us that clings to hope, isn’t there? Why is […]

PODCAST- Tough Talk… with Lori Stanley Roeleveld

You know that conversation you need to have?The one you’ve been putting off?Why are you putting it off, anyway?Never mind, I know the answer.Because, it’s well, HARD.That’s the whole idea behind hard conversations.They’re messy.And awkward.And risky. And, well, hard.Now I’m just repeating myself.See how hard this is? Who wants that?Not me. But sometimes, we need […]

PODCAST- Love and sandpaper and stuff… with Karen Ehman

Happy Valentine’s Day! Ah, love. It’s a many splendored thing. Makes the world go round… I’ve even heard it’s soft as an easy chair, and fresh as the morning air… Yeah, yeah. All that there. It’s also hard. Really HARD. Especially when you’re loving someone that’s well, SO unlike you, Why can’t they be more […]

PODCAST – A Beautiful Conversation… With Christie Purifoy

You’d think a chat about beauty would be kinda, well, fluff. But you’d be WRONG. And I don’t mind telling you, pal. This is actually one of those conversations that, the more you listen, the more you pick up on some intensely profound (and dare I say “beautiful”? Yes. Yes, I do dare say it) […]

Morning Drill

She sits on a stool And tells me about her dreams while she eats breakfast ********************************* Ok, there you go… Time for my semi-annual inadvertent posting of a haiku on the wrong blog! Well, seeing how it’s too late to delete and all…might as well turn lemons into lemonade, & make the most of it […]

Love Them Meanies: Who? Me???

Alright class, show of hands: Who wants to Love Your Enemies? “Ooooh! Me! Meee! Pulllleeeease pick Meeeeeeeee!” Ok you there, in the back, with the Coexist T-shirt on, come on up here. Oh, what’s that you say? You thought the question was “who wants to shove their enemies?” I see. Honest mistake. Makes total sense […]

Manifesto Part II: What the World Needs Now is Love, Sweet Misfit Love

I promised you, albeit months ago, we’d get back to the Misfit Manifesto business. And a promise made is a promise kept; so here we are. If you missed Part I, by the way, you can catch up here: https://isleofmisfits.com/2018/09/17/podcast-misfit-manifesto-part-i-own-your-awkward/ Give a listen, then come back and read the rest… OR vice versa. We’re all […]