Intertwined Roots

Intertwined Roots

Originally published on the New College Berkeley blog. In the Fall of 2019 just before the pandemic, Pastor Gary VanderPol, of Church Without Walls, Berkeley, where I serve as a spiritual director, introduced the image of the redwood tree in a sermon series titled,...
September 6, 2017

September 6, 2017

My mother would have turned ninety-years old this past July. In reflecting on this occasion, I came across this old blog post from 2008, published soon after my mother’s death from complications due to Alzheimer’s Syndrome. I am re-posting it in honor of her continued...