While some traditionally rest from lenten practices on Sundays, for those who intend to write the full 46 days, Today's word for writing is "feast." On pathways to collective flourishing, how do we feast? What have you been taught about feasting/indulging - positive and negative? What do you find sacred about feasting at table? Bodily, elementally, relationally? What are ways of feasting that are more expansive than table alone? What compromises the ethics of a feast? What is built between people during a feast? How can you extend forms of feasting to others? Reflect. Meditate. Pay...

Today's word for writing is "humor." On pathways to collective flourishing, what is the role of humor? How would you speak to the sacredness of laughter? What role has humor played in movements for justice? Under what circumstances has humor been used against you? How does your body respond to humor you identify with? In what ways does life depend on humor? Reflect. Meditate. Pay attention. Feel. Then, write three lines of poetry. May it be a prayer, a confession, an observation, a longing, a release, or a sensation - whatever is needing your tending today. Collective contributions will...

Today's word for writing is "rest." On pathways to collective flourishing, how do we rest? How is exhaustion and burn out systemically encouraged? What is your own relationship to rest - of body, mind, spirit? What could change if the whole world was able to take the rest it needed? How do you show up for the collective right to rest? Whose rest do you work to protect? Are there any ways you active discourage people from taking the rest they need? What makes rest a spiritual practice? What systems have normalized lack of access to rest? Reflect. Meditate. Pay attention. Feel. Then, write...

Today's word for writing is "apology." On pathways to collective flourishing, what apologies are needed? How do you intentionally tend the pain that you've experienced that will never receive an apology? Who taught you to apologize well? What role has apology-without-action played in maintaining systemic violences and oppression? Can relational mending occur without authentic apologies? Have you been withholding any apologies? Reflect. Meditate. Pay attention. Feel. Then, write three lines of poetry. May it be a prayer, a confession, an observation, a longing, a release, or a sensation -...

Today's word for writing is "mystery." On pathways to collective flourishing, what is the significance of mystery? Through what kind of encounters are you most in touch with the gifts of mystery? What dominant systems and norms have resulted in cultural depreciation of mystery? What is lost - individually and collectively - when mystery is demeaned? What are the risks of living in touch with mystery? What are the dangers of living as if everything can be neatly defined, organized, and "objectively" interpreted? How does mystery encourage right-relationship with the whole of life? Reflect....

Today's word for writing is "erasure." On pathways to collective flourishing, what erasures must be addressed? What parts of your self or stories of your life have been touched by erasure? What has your family, your faith community, or your local region intentionally erased from the telling of stories, the recalling of histories, the narratives of community? What has been erased from your lineage that you need to recover - to wrestle with or to embrace? How are you contributing now to a future that won't be marked by the same matters of erasure? What practices help to ensure future...