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The Redbud Hyphen // Surrendering to Possibility (August 2025)
The Redbud Hyphen // The Glow of Connection (January 2025)
The Redbud Hyphen // Believing (December 2024)
The Redbud Hyphen // Ghosts of Summer (June 2024)
Awake Our Hearts // Remembering Life (September 2023)
(in)courage // The Gift of a Grilled Cheese (June 2023)
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being real and connecting
“Be yourself so that people that are looking for you can find you.” - Arlan Hamilton I chose It's About Damn Time for the Peacemaker’s Book Club because when I read it this summer I was taken by Arlan's humble confidence. Through her stories, she manifested a genuine...
recognizing your culture
I often tell the story that I didn’t realize that I was a minority until I won an award for it in high school. My father was a white American and my mother is a Filipina. I was born and raised in a small city in Indiana where my local family, friends, neighbors,...
you be you
A step beyond knowing ourselves is acting on and living in that knowing. How often do we hide or ignore our true selves so that we can get along? We mistakenly think that building relationships is easier if we act as we are expected to and do what the world tells us...
knowing yourself
It is hard to build a relationship, especially with someone with a different background or beliefs, if you are not being true to who you really are. Think about the relationships in your own life. Who can you have deep and authentic conversations with? Who do you...
seeing things differently
I chose Last Stop on Market Street* to kick off the Peacemaker’s Book Club because as a mother I have learned (or re-learned) that children’s books can be as meaningful and insightful for adults as they are for children. Reading with my kids at bedtime is something I...
peacemaker’s book club
As an avid reader, the thought of consistently integrating books into A Peacemaker’s Life brings me excitement and joy. I truly believe that learning about people’s stories and journeys through their written words is a meaningful way to gain insight and understanding....
on peacemaking
One of the misconceptions about peacemakers is that they are passive, but making change and building common ground takes effort. Sometimes what looks like doing nothing - listening or keeping calm or standing your ground - is actually revolutionary. Often around this...
finding peace
I used to have a magnet on my fridge with the saying, “Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.” “Being calm in your heart” is not easy work. That...
embracing joy
Last Sunday at Mass I sat behind a mother holding a sweet little baby boy. He was probably about three months old, still young enough to rest easy in his mother’s arms yet old enough to take in his surroundings with wide eyes full of wonder. He fell asleep a few...
“We do not write in order to be understood;
we write in order to understand.”
– C.S. Lewis