by Elisa Stancil | Feb 13, 2023 | How to Be Human
The trip to the desert, our last vacation before our wedding, was my idea, an homage to the end of our twenty-two year engagement. Now we’re back home, and as Chuck finishes downloading photos from Death Valley I climb the spiral stair to his tower office and study...
by Elisa Stancil | Nov 23, 2022 | How to Be Human
One summer when I was still a small girl, my father—thin as a crane back then—crouched beside me on a big, flat rock, his arms and knees akimbo. His hand was steady on my shoulder as we watched the American River surge around us. I remember feeling the cold edge of...
by Elisa Stancil | Mar 23, 2021 | How to Be Human
Hello my readers… Instead of writing about equity, love and kindness, today I am posting images from trips to Shanghai and Hong Kong. I have no words to share, because you, my like-minded, caring friends already know in your hearts what I would say about the travesty...
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...
