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Most anti-homeless architecture doesn't actually do anything to solve homelessness. It just makes the lives of unhoused people harder. The only anti-homeless architecture that can solve homelessness is housing.

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One of the women that works in the archives at the monastery also volunteers at a local Humane Society and they have a kitten who is getting surgery to remove his eye and I think I might have found my second cat. I might need to talk to my landlord...

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We have "hot" and "cold" but we know that there are temperatures that exist between the two. And we have "dark" and "light" but know that there are a a multitude of variances between them. Why can't we do the same with "male" and "female" and appreciate all that can exist between and around them?

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Dear manager, 1. You're like a dream come true. 2. Just wanna be with you. 3. Girl, it's plain to see that you're the only one for me, and 4. Repeat steps one through three. 5. Make you fall in love with me. If ever I believe my work is done, Then I'll start back at one.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I don't want to brag, but there is something satisfying during a class of student presentations when the instructor references you by name and shares a point you made during your presentation when you are several presentations past your presentation. It happened to me tonight and felt great.

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I might be taking a weeklong summer course taught by Kathleen Norris (author of Dakota & The Cloister Walk)& I'm excited about it but can't really think of many people in my life who'd appreciate it & be excited for me. So I'm posting it here Even if you're not that excited can you at least pretend?

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Had thought about taking a flight up to Minnesota rather than driving to see some friends this spring. But I am definitely changing my mind on that.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I was a church person all of my life. I grew up in church, went to seminary, was a pastor for a time but then I just got tired of all the silly little arguments about silly little things that church ppl love to get into. And just when I think it might be ok, I run into another silly little argument.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

My niece posted an article from Science.Org on her Facebook page and her Trumper gma (not my mom) commented that she needs to find a better news source. 😐 Sorry it's not Fox "news."

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It's not even 10:00am yet. I only arrived at work at 8:00am but it feels like I've been here for ages.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I just got a little surge of new followers. Wasn't expecting that. But, hello! Thanks for the follow. I'm not that exciting so I hope you aren't disappointed.

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I saw a video sharing clips of people who apparently voted for Trump and are now upset/angry about things he's doing. And it was meant to mock them. I don't understand that. Sure they were easily misled and made a horrible choice but we need to be united against Musk/Trump. We need everyone.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Once we start putting a numerical value on a human life, we are lost. And evil has won. Let me be clear: every human life is of an incalculable worth. Each of you is precious beyond words, beyond thought, beyond reckoning. When men say otherwise, the humanity they deny is their own.

submitted 15 days ago • 14 comments

This was my view tonight during my online class.

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I didn't put food out for the alley cats last night because I got home late. This morning I saw paw prints in the snow on my deck and can tell that one of them came and looked into my bedroom window. There are paw prints on the windowsill! Probably wondering where the heck I was with their snack.🙀

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A quick resistance task: 1. Google Gulf of Mexico 2. “Gulf of America" is the top 3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it 4. Select "Send Feedback" 5. Click on "Gulf Of America" 6. Select "Inaccurate content" 7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

submitted 15 days ago • 669 comments

I can't say I have an attention deficit disorder, as I don't have a diagnosis, but I do have some issues with staying focused on tasks and my boss loves to stop me in the middle of things to ask me to do other things & I just have the darndest time remembering to go back and finish the 1st things.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

There's no "transgender debate." Trans ppl exist. I know some personally & consider many to be friends. Just because u don't understand what it means to be transgender, are narrow-minded or ignorant doesn't mean u can just decide that transgender people don't exist. They exist and they are lovely.

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A lot of white folks are big mad because a black man performed and it wasn't tailored to their preferences. It's good for white people to be decentered. We need to hear other voices loud and proud. Especially now.

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When I lived at L'Arche, many of my housemates were very vocal and emotional Chiefs fans. I miss a lot of things about working at L'Arche, but being in the house on a night like tonight is most definitely not one of them.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I think I have two whole days in a row with nothing to do at work. That's the first time in like three weeks that this has happened. I'm going to do a lot of sitting around and doing nothing. And maybe napping.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

My boss, an 80 year old Benedictine Sister, uses Comic Sans for her email font and it drives me bonkers.

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Here is a picture of one of the cats behind my apartment. Apparently, the town I live in is in a feral cat epidemic and the local shelter doesn't really accept stray cats. This one and her friend (a calico) are well taken care of between me and the woman who owns the shop next door. #proofofcat

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Tonight, I'm leading the first of a 4 week book discussion on Wisdom Distilled From the Daily, by Sister Joan Chittister, over Zoom. And it wouldn't be a big deal except the last two weeks have basically been consumed by getting ready for and hosting the Prioresses.

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

I’m officially off Twitter. Should’ve done it a while ago, but here we are. Would love to start building the amazing community I had fostered over there. So, if you like Jesus even a little bit and care about ending homelessness… let’s be friends!

submitted 21 days ago • 43 comments

Authoritarians win when we stop paying attention.

submitted 21 days ago • 19 comments

may every trans child grow into a trans adult

submitted 24 days ago • 14 comments

Today was the last day of the Council of Benedictine Prioresses meeting and, at our closing dinner, one of them says, "Hey this is the first large gathering I've been to in a while where someone hasn't gotten COVID." And I was like, "Sister Aileen! You can't say that yet. Don't jinx us!"

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Folks, I see a lot of you recently feeling free to use some variation of the "R" word for mentally disabled, including appending the last four letters as suffix to describe people you don't like. I'm not down with that, so if you do it in my comments, I'm gonna hide that shit at least. Be better.

submitted 24 days ago • 407 comments

I don't regret enrolling in the certificate in Benedictine Spirituality, but this week I have a paper due for that on Thurs, I start my 4-week online book discussion I'm leading for work on Wed, my spiritual director formation program meets on Fri-Sat, and we still have 41 prioresses here til Tues.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

"Every monastery needs a Mark." - words spoken by one of our prioress guests after the prioress from my community shared with her a little bit of what I do around the monastery.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I must be doing my job right. I overheard one of the Prioresses say she wants to take me back to her community. She lives in the Bahamas so I would be lying if I said it wasn't tempting.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

The Sisters here have scheduled Morning Prayer for an hour and 45 minutes later than normal for the morning after the Super Bowl. There are some diehard Kansas City football fans in the community 🤣🏈

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

If you say you're a trans ally but then also have your Hogwarts house in your bio, trans people may rightly question your allyship.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I have not been posting much these past days. While 41 Prioresses are lovely and gracious guests, they do keep a hospitality coordinator busy. I've been working 14 hour days and getting close to 20,000 steps every day. I've been sleeping really well at night, though. So there's that.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

The first full day of the prioress gathering and I put in 19,000 steps. It'll be fun to see how many steps I get by the end of the week.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

I work among Benedictine Sisters and I endorse this sentiment.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

submitted 29 days ago • 1030 comments