I am having trouble throwing away a used envelope. It sits on my kitchen counter and I keep picking it up and examining the wavy lines that run across the face of Lady Liberty, announcing that the letter was mailed…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
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Love Snail Mail. Love My Post Office.
Tagged with: Facebook, Gladys Morais, Kerala, Post Office, Snail mail
Posted in Family and Friends, I BLOG, Uncategorized, Writing
Posted in Family and Friends, I BLOG, Uncategorized, Writing
Class Warfare? Yes, On Women.
“Class Warfare” has become the verbal cudgel of choice for the GOP candidates for President. People like Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich have been trying to add some nails to that cudgel by screaming “Religious Liberty!” over President Obama’s insistence…
Tagged with: Contraception, religious freedom
Posted in Catholics and Culture, Class warfare, Healthcare, I BLOG, Uncategorized, US Bishops, Women's Rights
Posted in Catholics and Culture, Class warfare, Healthcare, I BLOG, Uncategorized, US Bishops, Women's Rights
Love,Healing and Authentic Discipleship
Simon’s mother-in-law lay sick with a fever.They immediately told him about her. He approached, grasped her hand, and helped her up. Then the fever left her and she waited on them. Mark 1: 30-31 Fr. Tim Eden nurses a grudge…
Tagged with: Healthcare, Pro Life, Pro Poor, Romney, Women's Health
Posted in Fighting Poverty, I BLOG, Planned Parenthood, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Posted in Fighting Poverty, I BLOG, Planned Parenthood, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Love’s Ways to Grace
Love as joy can keep us living fully, right up to our fingertips, till the end of our days. Or, perversely, love, clouded by fear of loss, can make us shut down our capacity for life too soon as we…
Tagged with: Grace, Knowing ourselves, love, Martha and Mary, Merton
Posted in Faith, Family and Friends, Grace, I BLOG, Merton, Uncategorized
Posted in Faith, Family and Friends, Grace, I BLOG, Merton, Uncategorized
The Politics of Envy . . .and Silence
Why are the Bishops silent? On the stump, politicians who would be President speak of the “politics of envy” and “class warfare.” Mormon Mitt and conspicuously Catholic Rick and Newt want the hurting poor to get over their “envy” of…
Tagged with: Church Leaders, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, preferential option for the poor, Rick Santorum, US Bishops, vulture capitalists
Posted in Business and Justice, Catholics and Culture, Christian Politicians, Devout Catholic Policians, Fighting Poverty, I BLOG, Justice, Politics and Religion, Religion and Political Discourse, Uncategorized, US Bishops, Workers' Rights
Posted in Business and Justice, Catholics and Culture, Christian Politicians, Devout Catholic Policians, Fighting Poverty, I BLOG, Justice, Politics and Religion, Religion and Political Discourse, Uncategorized, US Bishops, Workers' Rights
A Cup o’ Kindness for 2012
Two tickets to “A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor live at the Neil S. Blaisdell Concert Hall” – a date night gift from our children for Christmas. Listening to the woebegone musings of Garrison Keillor as he walked the…
From Yule Log to Bûche de Noel
2011: I decided that this was the year to bake and ice a Yule Log. I had watched my mother, the cake artist, do it many times but had never tried making one myself. For starters, I wasn’t sure that…
Tagged with: Catholic vote, Newt Gingrich, preferential option for the poor, President Obama, yule log
Posted in Catholic, Christian Politicians, I BLOG, Lay Catholics, Missal Changes, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Posted in Catholic, Christian Politicians, I BLOG, Lay Catholics, Missal Changes, Uncategorized, US Bishops
“Essential Cerebral Clout”–Where did it go?
It’s missing, said Irish Dominican Sr. Margaret MacCurtain, referring to the absence of intellectual rigor in the Vatican’s outlook on the world. But in speaking of the lack of “essential cerebral clout” she was really describing a condition just as…
Tagged with: Derrida, Sr. Margaret MacCurtain
Posted in Business and Justice, I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Religion and Political Discourse, Sports and Sexual Abuse, Uncategorized, Vatican
Posted in Business and Justice, I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Religion and Political Discourse, Sports and Sexual Abuse, Uncategorized, Vatican
Suffer the little children….
. . .was not supposed to mean “let the children suffer.” What is it about these men Hell-bent on winning souls— Or football games? When Do they start becoming blind, Deaf, derelict and craven: Transfixed by what they find? Our…
Trading Technology for the Common Touch
When I look up, I meet the eyes Of the one who is before me: My child, my spouse, my neighbor, My client, my colleague, my friend. I read what is unsaid. I guess at what a frown Might signify.…
Tagged with: Droids, Hearing, iPad, iPhones, iPod, Seeing, smartphones
Posted in Communications, I BLOG, Listening, Seeing, Uncategorized
Posted in Communications, I BLOG, Listening, Seeing, Uncategorized
