Going the Distance

Dear Inner Circle, What does it mean to reconcile? The word itself feels heavy in the mouth. As though it already knows something difficult is

Dear Inner Circle, What is the value in being good for nothing? This week I asked a dear friend, one of our community members, to

Dear Inner Circle, Sundays arrive at Wayside in something of a predictable manner — quietly, and then all at once. Last week, two people found

Dear Inner Circle, Mother’s Day arrives this Sunday. For some, it’ll be a warm moment perhaps with flowers, a long phone call and breakfast in

Dear Inner Circle, What an honour it was to march briefly with Uncle Ray on the weekend, to be in proximity to a man of

Dear Inner Circle, A once-young man, well known in his community, fell into a coma after being assaulted. He recovered, but was never the same.

Dear Inner Circle, The start of November is when hearts begin their migration home, pulled by the same mysterious geometry that draws sea turtles back

Dear Inner Circle, Last Tuesday, someone asked me the question I’ve been asked a hundred times before: “What should I do?” We were standing outside the op

Dear Inner Circle, For those of us of a certain age, we were taught the path to harmony was tolerance, to just leave each other

Dear Inner Circle, There are some spaces spoken of in Celtic mysticism described as “thin places” – areas where the veil is particularly thin, where