2019 All-School Orientation Project, “All That We Share” started on Thursday. Using design thinking, teams are learning how ‘empathy’ helps us understand needs of the Spokane community. A service fair promoting Spokane nonprofits and giving organizations is the final product.

Sometimes I feel like I don't have any clue how to do parenting, and then it's my kid's bedtime and I make up a version of Star Wars from a deer's perspective with characters named Fawn Solo, R2-Deer-2, and C3P-Doe and all is well with the world.

“If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can’t, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe, then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Everybody’s worth more than the worst thing they’ve ever done.

God’s not concerned about how the stock market is doing...God cares about how the poor are doing.

This 30-year-old man with special needs was found walking alone. And when cops asked him who they could call, he only remembered one name: his junior high teacher. Now that teacher is taking him in ❤️️

"Every person you will ever meet has infinite worth." - Frank Kimper, Ph.D. Every person. Every person. Every person. Every person.

My heart breaks for the grieving families and communities in #TX and #OH. I’m anxious for more answers, and like so many Americans, I’m angry. As we wait to learn more, one fact is clear—violence motivated by white nationalism is terrorism. It’s evil & has no place here.

Breathe, you are online. #mindfulness #meditation

Good morning family...You cannot serve two masters. You cannot serve God and white supremacy💯...govern yourselves accordingly ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

These Award-Winning Teachers Say to Close the Detention Centers and Bring the Children to Our Classrooms @orozcoNMTOY2018 @HeidiCrumrine @MandyRheaWrites

I’m a third-generation Chinese-American who grew up speaking English and I’ve been told multiple times in my life to “go back to where I came from”. For the #racistinchief to spew that hate about fellow Americans absolutely sickens me. I don’t know if I’m more angry or sad.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), such as being forcibly separated from a parent or caregiver, substantially increase the risk for negative physical and psychological outcomes, both in the short term and later in life.

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This is the church of the Beatitudes, St Francis, St Hildegard, the mystics and prophets, that hears the cry of the poor and the earth, that rejects colonialism and patriarchy, embraces dialogue, the role of women, indigenous wisdom, ecology—and yes, all in the spirit of Jesus.

I got clean and sober 33 years ago today. I didn’t mean to, expect to or even want to. I just wanted the pain to stop. As a friend told me, “By the end, I was deteriorating faster than I could lower my standards.” I know my sober tweet people will help you if you reach out here.