Ode to Generation X for Pride Month
I just want to point out that all these politicians who keep claiming they are protecting children by taking steps to criminalize...
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Kimi Floyd Reisch
- Jun 13
- 2 min
Everybody Has a Pulse
I wrote this after Pulse, early on the morning of June 13, 2016. I was at an Annual Meeting of the MN Conference of the United Church of...
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Kimi Floyd Reisch
- Apr 10
- 6 min
My Son, the Addict
“As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself...
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Kimi Floyd Reisch
- Jan 12
- 8 min
The Slow Death of Public Education
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. - Nelson Mandela There are 26,727 high schools in the United...
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Kimi Floyd Reisch
- Jan 9
- 4 min
Weight and the Heavy Legacy of Trauma
t/w sexual abuse; trauma; suicide My maternal grandmother grew up on a northern Pennsylvania farm. Her mother died shortly after...
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Kimi Floyd Reisch
- Jan 8
- 4 min
Becoming a Beautiful Mosaic
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different...
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Kimi Floyd Reisch
- Jan 7
- 3 min
Centering Compassion and Love, Not Wealth
The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and...
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Kimi Floyd Reisch
- Jan 5
- 4 min
Relearning to Rest
Doing those deeply unfashionable things—slowing down, letting your spare time expand, getting enough sleep, resting—is a radical act now,...
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Kimi Floyd Reisch
- Jan 4
- 6 min
When Life Happens, You Learn to Live
The worst is what happens when you’re blithely going about the dogged routine of your life, those moments when you’ve forgotten to have a...
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Kimi Floyd Reisch
- Dec 18, 2022
- 5 min
The Wonder of HumanLight & Love
When we love, we are opening the door to wonderful, literally a world full of wonder. When we see love as the will to nurture one's own...
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Kimi Floyd Reisch
- Dec 18, 2022
- 4 min
Wandering to Witness Wonder
Do you remember that old book and then movie, “The Stepford Wives?” It told the story of a town where every wife became a robot, making...
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Kimi Floyd Reisch
- Nov 28, 2022
- 7 min
About Hope and Giving Thanks
UU Santa Fe, November 27, 2022 “A Blessing for Risk-Takers and Failures” written by Robin Tanner. Today we share in a blessing for...
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Kimi Floyd Reisch
- Nov 1, 2022
- 7 min
Sticks and Stones Revisited
We have all heard the old saying – “Sticks and stones might break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” The saying reflects a mistake....
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Kimi Floyd Reisch
- Sep 12, 2022
- 7 min
The Short-ish British History of Blood, Religion, & Ascension
As people around the world continue to consider the life and legacy of the 70-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II of the Commonwealth...
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Kimi Floyd Reisch
- Jul 31, 2022
- 13 min
The State of Queerness: The Attack on Children and Youth
“Never has America lost a war...But name, if you can, the last peace the United States won. Victory yes, but this country has never made...
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Kimi Floyd Reisch
- Dec 27, 2021
- 3 min
Christmas Unwrapped: Uncovering a Barrel of Glass Pickles
Ah, the holidays. Days filled with Christmas traditions - moments and things that center our holiday memories. Some are specific to our...
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Kimi Floyd Reisch
- Dec 17, 2021
- 12 min
Christmas Unwrapped: Carols and Controversies
Perhaps no person is more responsible for the modern celebration of Christmas than Saint Francis of Assisi, and it is to him credit goes...
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Kimi Floyd Reisch
- Dec 7, 2021
- 9 min
Christmas Unwrapped: The Story of the Nativity
Outside of the Christmas Tree adorned with a star at the top, the second most common symbol of the religious holiday of Christmas is the...
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Kimi Floyd Reisch
- Nov 25, 2021
- 4 min
One Nation, Many Thanksgivings
As people in the United States gather to celebrate and eat with family members, they are likely putting out a traditional menu to honor...
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Kimi Floyd Reisch
- Oct 26, 2021
- 5 min
Justice? Or Just a Myth?
In Plato’s The Republic, Socrates makes the point that when the parts of the soul are in balance there is justice and that imbalances...
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