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" Finally, you will have to chart your own course, find your own way, and take readings (i.e. be mindful) from time to time to check and see if the path you are following--the teachers you are finding and the community you are practicing with, if you have found one--feels intuitively healthy and appropriate to... Continue Reading →
"Spirituality is the active pursuit of the God you didn't make up."~ Barbara Brown Taylor's Sufi friend, Judy, Holy Envy Where is your God? Where does he live? If your first answer is 'in heaven,' then I think you might be following the wrong blog. Stick around. Who knows... you might like it here. If... Continue Reading →
"He was more practitioner than advocate, in the way of believers whose religion is so intimate they keep it to themselves."~ Lief Enger, Virgil Wander "Be humble because you are made of earth. Be noble, for you are made of stars."~ Serbian Proverb What if it is the very mixture of humility and nobility that... 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 →
“… human societies are infinitely… complex, full of choices and mistakes, periods of glory and seasons of utter despair. Some of us make highly visible, elaborate contributions to the whole. Some of us are part of the ticking mechanics of the world, the incremental wealth of small gestures. All of it matters. All of it... Continue Reading →
“The Bible says that no one can see God and live. In a transferred sense, no person can see himself and live. All you can ever achieve is a sense of your soul. You gain little glimpses of its light, colors, and contours. You feel the inspiration of its possibilities and the wonder of its... Continue Reading →
“Night after night darkness enters the face of the lily which, lightly closes its five walls around itself, and is purse of honey, and its fragrance, and is content ... Continue Reading →
So I found my word. I can’t get around it, and who am I to argue? Fifth Annual Word of the Year. Deep Breath. Rime Ice, a lá the earliest days of 2021 I’ve been thinking about this since well-before 2021 hit, and thinking about what these words mean. Every year I think I have... Continue Reading →
I was working through one of those loud and chaotic inner conversations with myself yesterday about how I want things to go. You know, in life. Do you have these? Well, this one got a bit heated, and me, myself, and I all had to take separate corners for a while there. In the end--when... 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 →
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich My rating: 5 of 5 stars I think that The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse has been on my to-read shelf for almost a decade. Back in the days when my super-reader-friends were just introducing me to good... Continue Reading →
First sun of 2019. Well, there we are. One year up in flames, and another just kindling on the hearth. I've been thinking about my word for the year. For my first year or so it was Empathy, which never really gets old, at least not when you're me. But still, in the spirit of one... Continue Reading →
Tales From the Nexus 