Grace and peace! This week, and every week: May we challenge one another's perspectives with compassion. May we open our hearts and minds to learning. And may we build a community that is mutually supportive. A Quick Recap (Because It's Been A While) In recognition of having offered a lot of information to process and [...]
Grace and peace! This week, and every week: May we challenge one another's perspectives with compassion. May we open our hearts and minds to learning. And may we build a community that is mutually supportive. Voices Gathered at the Table One of the most important things we can do in our first moments of conversation [...]
Grace and peace! As a staff member of Casa Marianella, I would like to invite y'all into conversation here, via the comments of this blog, around the overarching topic of immigration. It goes without saying (though I'll say it anyway) that immigration greatly affects our broader community and our nation, and yet it's a topic [...]
During a recent Casa shift, I found myself in the middle of an argument between two residents. They were speaking (well, one was yelling) in Spanish, and while I can get by conversationally, I wasn’t quite able to understand what was happening other than that it involved one person taking out another person’s laundry from [...]