🌱 The Gospel of Freshly Cut Grass 🌱
Cult of Brighter Days Dispatch on Coping and Hope, by Bishop Sara of Sunshine and Sass Life, right now, feels like a lawn that hasn’t seen love since the Reagan administration. Overgrown, chaotic, buzzing with unseen terrors — the kind of place you half expect to lose a flip-flop or discover a new species of […]
Trump Says He Wants to go to Heaven…
But Does He Know the Requirements? So. The president says he wants to go to Heaven. Bless his heart. And by “bless” I mean: sweet mercy, this man really thinks he’s the hero. There comes a moment—awkward, untelevised, maybe during a bad hair day—when even the most ego-bloated public figure glances at the cosmic scoreboard […]
đź“š The Quiet Crisis:
When We Can Read—But Don’t There’s a crisis sneaking through our cultural bloodstream—and it’s not loud enough to make headlines. It doesn’t throw bricks or crash economies. It just quietly unthreads the soul of a thinking society. It’s called aliteracy: the ability to read, paired with the conscious decision not to. This isn’t about people […]
The New Renaissance Will Not Be Televised
— But It Might Be a Musical The old powers want you to think in straight lines.Preferably, straight lines that lead into an algorithm, a ballot with two bad options, or their fourth vacation home. They want you to choose between “bad” and “worse,” stay politely quiet while they rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic, […]
When the Airwaves Go Quiet: A Love Letter to PBS, NPR, and the Power of Storytelling
By Bishop Sara (a lifelong viewer like you) Friends, fellow seekers of awe and quietly narrated wisdom, It is with a heavy, tote-bag-laden heart that I come to you today. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting its doors. That sentence alone feels like a rip in the very fabric of the soft-spoken, intellectually curious, […]
Well, At Least We Have Real Sugar in Coke Again
I was on vacation when I heard the news —Not Epstein files (those never come),Not NOAA finally stabilizing under climate collapse pressure (don’t hold your breath),Not even something as whimsical as health insurance making sense (a girl can hallucinate). No. It was Coke.Apparently — and only in some blessed markets —Coca-Cola Classic might be switching […]
“Awe, Yeah!”
Finding Wonder When Life is a Dumpster Fire Look. The world’s on fire—literally, metaphorically, existentially. The news cycle is a carnival ride designed by someone who actively resents your nervous system, your inbox is staging a coup, and the cat just vomited on the one patch of carpet you still emotionally trusted. Again. And yet—even […]
The Barbecue Sermon Day 5: Go Away – The Holiest Exit Strategy
You Tried. Now Go Home. It’s the final day of The Barbecue Sermon, and here’s your holy permission slip:If you can’t follow the other tenets, go away. And—this is important—sometimes the one who needs to go… isn’t you. Sometimes keeping the peace means ending the potluck early for someone else. Because grace isn’t always passive. […]
The Barbecue Sermon Day 4: Be Quiet – – Because Not Every Moment Deserves Your Words
https://youtube.com/shorts/ES6_fhI0HXk Silence is a Spiritual Practice (Especially at a Family Cookout) Day 4 of The Barbecue Sermon, and by now you’re tired. Of the heat. Of the fireworks. Of explaining your existence to relatives who think boundaries are un-American. Tenet Four is your refuge: If you can’t be funny, shut up. Silence is sacred. Use […]
The Barbecue Sermon Day 3: Be Funny – But Don’t Punch Down
Roast the Hot Dogs, Not Your Cousin Midway through The Barbecue Sermon, we hit Tenet Three: If you can’t be nice, be funny (but don’t punch down). Humor is a shield and a signal. Used well, it can disarm egos, reframe tension, and reclaim your humanity—even if your uncle is quoting memes out loud. Let’s […]