Incarceration carries stigma.   If a person is incarcerated, whether justly or unjustly, the very fact that the person is jailed or imprisoned convinces many if not most of us that the person did something illegal that warranted the imprisonment.  Although the common law claims that a person is innocent until proven guilty, many times it seems to operate in exactly the reverse order. …

I am increasingly amazed at how much yard and house decorating goes into the preparation for Halloween.  I am constantly curious and somehow strangely encouraged by the energy and creativity that goes into this ‘holiday!’

“You are like unseen graves over which people unknowingly walk”

Merriam Webster defines “throwing shade” in the following way:

Shade is a subtle, sneering expression of contempt for or disgust with someone—sometimes verbal, and sometimes not.…

We are in the fall time of year, where the days get shorter and cooler, leaves begin to turn, and in some ways there is a sense that things slow down.  Interestingly enough, there is still some excitement and growth even during this season. …

Quite interestingly, in the tradition of the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, it is said that after the death of Jesus, Jewish and Roman authorities sought to obscure or cover up the tomb of Christ in an effort to disavow the claims of the followers of Christ. …

As I am sitting her writing this meditation in the darkness before dawn, I am watching the waning crescent of the moon growing in brilliance just above the mountains surrounding Albuquerque.  From my hotel window, I have watched this one beautiful mountain emerge from the darkness each morning before dawn. …