by Shannon Turner | Jul 25, 2018 | Blog
A couple weeks ago I went to a live re-enactment of Alanis Morissette’s seminal 90s album, Jagged Little Pill. I was so unbelievably excited to have this opportunity that I downloaded and started streaming the entire album days beforehand, screaming it at the...
by Shannon Turner | Jul 13, 2018 | Blog
I know it’s hard sometimes. It feels like we do a lot and have virtually no affect on the things we’d like to change. A few years ago, I got a Facebook friend request from a guy with whom I’d gone to grad school. We’d lost touch the moment we...
by Shannon Turner | Jul 9, 2018 | Blog
Note: This is a follow-up post inspired from participating in a four-day long meditation retreat at the Great Tree Zen Meditation Center in North Carolina. Part 1 can be found here. The theme of my recent meditation retreat, or sesshin (pronounced...
by Shannon Turner | Jun 25, 2018 | Blog
I’ve often said that I basically tell three kinds of stories: camp unrequited love unrequited love at camp If you’re unfamiliar, this is one of my best loved stories, which was featured on NPR. When I was a camp counselor and administrator in the 90s, I...
by Shannon Turner | Jun 19, 2018 | Blog
Often in the culture I grew up in, we first teach children to pray at two times of day, mealtime and bedtime. The mealtime prayer goes something like this: God is great, God is good.Let us thank Him for our food.By His hand we all are fed.Give us Lord our daily...
