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"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 →
“There is an implicit wholeness in the human heart; it is a huge treasure house that we draw on every day. Ultimately it is what anchors and guides us. A simple metaphor for this is a physical wound. When you have a wound in your hand it always heals from the edges; the center is... Continue Reading →
“Do you want to know why the bad things in this world jump out at us much more than the good things? It’s because the good things, they’re everywhere. The good things are like white noise; we stop noticing it but it’s there. Just like the sound of these birds. That’s the good stuff. We... Continue Reading →
“... This story invites us to honor each obstacle as something flowing in its own right in the Universal stream, to see ourselves and the obstacle as two limbs of the same tree drifting in the same river, bumping into each other, and even blocking one another for a moment. Looking at obstacles this way,... Continue Reading →
“Become what you already are.”~ St. Gregory of Sinai “To change radically means waking up to reality as it really is, not as we presume it is.”~ The Monks of New Skete, In the Spirit of Happiness No one tells the seed to change. No one would call him incomplete, lazy, disappointing. He just is.... Continue Reading →
“A Rabbi asks his students, “How do you know the first moment of dawn has arrived?” After a great silence, one pipes up, “When you can tell the difference between a sheep and a dog.” The Rabbi shakes his head no. Another offers, “When you can tell the difference between a fig tree and an... Continue Reading →
Jeff Rennicke, The Conserve Kid’s English teacher back when COVID closed down the school and the world, is in Alaska, as he is wont to be. He wrote this on Wednesday: "It is fitting, I suppose: a thick fog blanketing the Alaskan mountainsides where I have come seeking solace after such a difficult and divisive... Continue Reading →
Sprung the hubs from the hospital the other day. The sorts of photos that would be appropriate to this story just really aren't appropriate to share. We'll have to make do...This is us in the ER on Scott's birthday, which was much more fun that the free birthday-food trolling that was on the docket. I... Continue Reading →
... and walking, because that is where I find my silence. Thanks to the many-a-mentioned MOOC and the Monks of New Skete, I've learned some things about myself, and how to finally find some measure of stillness in my life. I got to thinking about that quite a bit a while ago, whilst evaluating my progress, and there was... Continue Reading →
Tales From the Nexus 