vilmablenmanJun 212 minCelebrate! It's Summer SolsticeCelebrate it! Today, June 21st marks the summer solstice in our northern half of the hemisphere. It’s the longest day and night of light,...
vilmablenmanMay 243 minDecisions, DecisionsWe make them daily—monumental or inconsequential, from the moment we awake. Get up now or five minutes from now? Do I have a quick bowl...
vilmablenmanApr 182 minApril--Arrival and DepartureIn his ground-breaking post-war poem, “The Waste Land,” T. S. Eliot argues: April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead...
vilmablenmanMar 162 minLent--Loaned TimeYes, it’s the simple past tense of “lend” but when capitalized, the word, “Lent” denotes a liturgical season—40 days preceding Easter....
vilmablenmanFeb 83 minMy Black Church & Black IdentityAs another Black History Month rolls in and rolls on, I’m thinking of the forces that shaped my sense of Black identity, thinking of the...
vilmablenmanJan 43 min Go for Goals!It’s Day 4 of 2022. How are you doing so far with your goals and resolutions? I’m asking you this not because I’m a goal-setting guru or...
vilmablenmanAug 24, 20202 minBack To School in Covid Times?School will be a strange new world this September with Covid-19 still in the air.
vilmablenmanJul 19, 20202 minSummer Reset for Mental HealthWith the heat wave and patios opening, you’d think we are ready to wave goodbye to the pandemic and the anti-racist revolution.