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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 →
I ran across a post a while back, and of course it's now lost to the inner recesses of social media, but to poorly paraphrase: . . . Nevermind, I have to find it... please hold... . (For a brief musical interlude to hold you over, let's go with some Saggitarius 🎧.) . . .... Continue Reading →
"While modern astronomy tells us of our insignificance beneath the stars, it also tells us that if we lift so much as a finger, we affect them... The magnitude of the world with whose destiny we are bound up increases rather than diminishes our importance."~ Alan Watts, Importance (from Become What You Are) "Our sentience... 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 →
"It is the whole of nature, extending from the beginning to the end, that constitutes the one image of God Who Is."~ St. Gregory of Nyssa "Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with... Continue Reading →
"In the world where I choose to live, even the coldest winter must yield to the agents of spring and the darkest view of human nature must eventually find room for shafts of light."~ Madeleine Albricht, Prague Winter We've been camping for 3 weeks, working our way through the 5,000-mile circuit required to attend the... 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 →
"Sometimes when we look out, the world seems so dark. War, violence, hunger, and misery seem to abound. This makes us anxious and helpless. What can I do in my private little corner of life that could have any effect on the march of world events? The usual answer is: nothing. We then decide to... Continue Reading →
For Those Who Would GovernFirst question: Can you first govern yourself?Second question: What is the state of your own household?Third question: Do you have a proven record of community service and compassionate acts?Fourth question: Do you know the history and laws of your principalities?Fifth question: Do you follow sound principles? Look for fresh vision to... Continue Reading →
“Let your soul receive this rest: The God who sends thunder and lightning seeks to obliterate every system that threatens the dignity and shalom of the cosmos. Accept what mercy is available after what we’ve made of this precious, sacred world–what we’ve made of one another. In all our greed, our deceit, our apathy, our... Continue Reading →
"There is no substitute for going through things together. There is no way to 'language' what two whales share who swim around the world together or what binds two friends who climb through a forest of years in each other's steps."~ Mark Nepo, Seven Thousand Ways to Listen "... in the end, it seems to... 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 →
Tales From the Nexus 