Leslie Callahan posted this quote rom Basil the Great on FB. She is a thoughtfu womanist preacher who posts truth, not platitudes. I appreciate that about her. Here is her thought for the day, a quote from a kindred, ancient thinker who shares from the heart:

Words from Ancestor Harriet Tubman speak to the mind-heart today:

I came to realize clearly that mind is no other than mountains and rivers and the great wide earth, the sun and the moon and the stars. —Zen Master Dogen

Anna Julia Cooper on the cause of freedom, a human birthright. It is more than politics. It is a human right.

Took two hours off from meetings to walk on Mission Beach the other day. As the tide came in Yemaya's waves suddenly rushed in. She pulled me to my knees and forearms. She baptized me with a salt-water kiss.