This morning we honor the life and work of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He would have been 94 years old today, were it not for the untimely taking of his life, a contemporary of many of you here who perhaps were followers of his in the goal of civil rights and beloved community. When I think of Dr. King, one of the first things I think of is nonviolent civil disobedience or nonviolent direct action. Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to o

Every day at noon this month, beginning with January 2nd and all the way through the 31st I gather myself along with my laptop and my zafu and a prayer shawl gifted to me several years ago. I sign on to the Insight Meditation Society website learning center where I zoom in with one of three dharma teachers for a half hour of insightful Buddhist wisdom and sitting in silence. I breathe as per instruction, noticing the in and out of it, and for me the waiting in between, whic