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My T-shirt (lint and all 😉) for the Good Trouble Rally in Winchester this evening. “Let justice roll down like waters.” Amos 5:24
July 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
As I’m boycotting META this week. I thought I’d post some photos of a recent hike here. This hike (Hollow Brook) is mostly along the Appalachian Trail. The strange brown plant is American cancer root.
May 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
HANDS OFF OUR DEMOCRACY!!! Great crowd gathered for Winchester’s Hands Off demonstration. The League of Women Voters has done a great job organizing and choosing speakers.
April 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Happy International Women’s Day!

How about we observe this holiday by going forward rather than backward?!

“International Women's Day gives focus to issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights, and violence and abuse against women.” (This photo from a 2017 women’s march.)
March 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
A protest at Ben Cline’s office in Winchester, VA. One friend counted 400. #rachelmaddow
March 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Feisty gathering at the north end entrance to the Shenandoah National Park. I was expecting 20-30, but we had many more.
March 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Thanks to “Showing Up for Racial Justice” (SURJ) for providing our community with an opportunity to resist Trump’s authoritarian agenda. (Pretty good turnout on short notice and a bitterly cold day.)
February 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
HAPPY SPRING! In the Celtic world, February 1 is the first day of spring because it is St. Brigid’s Day. “In the Celtic Christian world St. Brigid becomes the saint of the greening earth and of new life rising.”

*From “Sacred Earth and Sacred Soul” (2021) by John Philip Newell
February 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM