Travel writer Rick Steves was at his home in Edmonds, Washington, when he learned a local community center for homeless residents was set to close. Within a few weeks, Steves bought it. “I really take ‘love your neighbor’ seriously,” he said.

on this Christmas Eve & everyday…people don’t belong in warehouses. would you like to be kept in a warehouse? would you like any of your loved ones kept in a warehouse? empathy isn’t hard. “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

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Some want to keep immigration out of the Christmas story to avoid uncomfortable questions about modern migrants. Yet for generations, Christians have understood the Holy Family’s flight to Egypt to be a refugee story. Read the rest from @esaumccaulley.bsky.social ⬇️ www.holypost.com/post/yes-jes...

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⭕️♥️🙏🏼 #love #OpenHeart #haiku #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

🌀 if not us, who? ⭕️♥️🙏🏼 #care #empathy #OpenHeart #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

keeping it simple 🙏🏼

🌀 It is this tender heart that has the power to transform the world. ~ Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche ⭕️♥️🙏🏼 #ChogyamTrungpa #OpenHeart #tenderness #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

read this twice if you need to.

The earth is filled with the pain of perpetually cycling existence. The sun burns itself alive in love and knows neither day nor night. Ah! To give such light and warmth!

⭕️♥️🙏🏼 #love #OpenHeart #SacredDuty #practice #path #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

do we see how it is all one piece yet? the attacks on trans people & immigrants will continue to extend out to any group they don’t see as equal & worthy. we must push back. speak out now, stand up, LOVE your neighbor!

🌀 spontaneous calligraphy practice. two thoughts: first, i know a lot of beautiful people who have open hearts. second, there are a lot of people in power and with power, whose hearts are closed. ~j ⭕️♥️🙏🏼 #OpenHeart #SpontaneousCalligraphy #calligraphy #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

-Thomas Merton, an American Trappist monk who died on this day in 1968 Artwork: @beaheartdesign

It sure does, Chef.

one has to wonder why would the administration do this. what benefit does it bring to them? it brings harm to others, but what are they getting out of it? i am reminded once again that perhaps, although it seems so crazy to me, the cruelty is the point.

We’re investigating ICE’s use of facial recognition cameras and automated license plate readers. The American people deserve to know how ICE is increasing surveillance to target immigrant communities across the U.S. as a part of President Trump’s deportation agenda.

w/ passing of #TomStoppard recently, i recalled i have been in a Stoppard play! my 1st paid acting job! 1996 at North Coast Rep Theatre, nearly 30 years ago. one of his lighter, less philosophical shows, yet still filled w/ Stoppard word play. here are some pics featuring me with youth & hair! 😂

not surprised. i’m still blown away that there are LGBTQ plus Republicans who support this President.

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War and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications (and) as long as we justify our own hard-heartedness and our own self-righteousness, joy and peace will always elude us. ~ Pema Chödrön ⭕️♥️🙏🏼 #peace #PemaChodron #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

🌀 i wrote this as part of my morning meditation & prayer practice. a practice to bless the moment, the beginning of the day. thought i would share in case others may find some benefit from it. ~j ⭕️♥️🙏🏼 #practice #ritual #bless #OpenHeart #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

this moment is asking each of us who we are? where do we find our center? what kind of understanding has all this life up until now led us to? from there we find our words & actions follow. may they be from a space of awareness, wisdom, & love. ⭕️♥️🙏🏼 #wayfarer #journey #life #love #JinpaLhaga #JMWart