by Elisa Stancil | Mar 2, 2021 | Color Stories
On a work trip to Paris I had a free day. I found a train to Giverny and decided to visit Claude Monet’s house and famous garden. His paintings never moved me much but I was keen to see the countryside and his home. Upon boarding the early morning train the fresh...
by Elisa Stancil | Feb 5, 2021 | Color Stories
In the early 70’s I spent a year and a half with my young son, alone in the middle of thousands of acres of rolling grassland. When we settled into the small farmhouse this landscape seemed empty. Soon Jamey and I set out toward clusters of low trees on far away...
by Elisa Stancil | Nov 1, 2020 | How to Be Human
Equity in America: An Invitation Part Three of Greet the Light and Widen the Lens In the late 1990’s I studied Judaism, hoping to convert. After a year of discourse, study and reflection, I felt as though I was swimming upstream in a mighty river. I confessed...
by Elisa Stancil | Sep 16, 2020 | How to Be Human
“For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.” William Blake Last week seasonal fog trapped dense wildfire smoke, blanketing San Francisco Bay in an eerie deep orange glow. This photo was taken at noon on September 9 and the darkness lasted...
by Elisa Stancil | Aug 9, 2020 | How to Be Human
The travesty of George Floyd’s murder, and the relentless replay of it, tore the top off the blister of 400 years of racism festering in our country. In the weeks following, like many white people, I read books, watched films, and meditated. Each week I hoped to post...
