Gather 'round…
Fireweed. Rebuilder of the Boreal. Firefighter of the Northern hemisphere, on the ground. Survivor of raging forest fires, WWII bomb craters, and the very blast of Mt. St. Helens. If you live in the north, you're probably familiar, at least peripherally, with fireweed. You'd probably recognize it on a roadside, even if you couldn't break... Continue Reading →
"Trust in the slow work of God."~ Tielhard de Chardin Stems and Roots "The love we show saves the Love we hide,the way a sprig in sun feeds its unseen root. Even though I believe in living in the open, parts of me hide. I can't help it. But what I can help is which... Continue Reading →
"Let the opposing voices in your head speak.They are only finding their partin a larger, yet-to-be heard song." ~ Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening This is the 6th year I'm working my way through The Book of Awakening. Fun Fact: It looks like I first embarked upon my journey with Nepo right about the... Continue Reading →
"'If you place two living heart cells from different people in a Petrie dish, they will in time find and maintain a third and common beat.' -- Molly Vass "This biological fact holds the secret of all relationship. It is cellular proof that beneath any resistance we might pose and beyond all our attempts that... Continue Reading →
"May I be the tiniest nail in the house of the universe, tiny buy useful. May I stay forever in the stream."~ Mary Oliver, Upstream Grandiose ideas.Dreams of fame.Mixed motivations outing the carefully concealed conflicts of our humanity. There just may be some space in every human soul for delusions of grandeur, for jumps and... Continue Reading →
“For the most part, wisdom comes in chips rather than in blocks. You have to be willing to gather them constantly, and from sources you never imagined to be probable. No one chip gives you the answer for everything. No one chip stays in the same place throughout your life. The secret is to keep... Continue Reading →
The birds have been frequenting our back deck, promenading back and forth along the railings and peering at me from the handles of the grill nearest the patio doors. They’ve been hanging out around the spent stalks of the hostas in front, parading up and down, stopping with each ascent to gaze in through the... Continue Reading →
I haven’t been writing much lately. Not enough time. Not enough brain space. Sometimes one has to withdraw from the writing to engage in the life. Let’s call it a Lenten switchup. I’ll be back after Pascha, I’m sure. But I have had great occasion recently to wonder with fear and trembling at the tremendous... Continue Reading →
A little follow up on yesterday's post... It took me a while to find it, as the much-coveted book has already been surrendered to the library, but I thought it worth reposting Mike Perry's closing essay from Roughneck Grace. Kind of sums up those times around the fire, no matter how they're spent. A bit... Continue Reading →
George Bernard Shaw, so the story goes, once said to a society matron, "Madam, I'll wager you would go to bed with me for five pounds." She was instantly indignant. How could he think such a thing? He paused as if thinking and asked, "What if I offered you one hundred thousand pounds?" She hesitated... Continue Reading →
The word 'humility' comes from the Latin word 'humus' which means fertile ground... [It] is the situation of the earth. The earth is always there, always taken for granted, never remembered, always trodden on by everyone, somewhere we cast and pour out all the refuse, all we don't need. It's there, silent and accepting everything... Continue Reading →
I am the ultimate cynic. I am a compassionless soul who spends far too great a percentage of her time judging those around me. I am not proud of the fact – far from it. But this is one of my struggles in life. This is the vice that often reveals my true colors. So... Continue Reading →
Tales From the Nexus 