Desert as Metaphor – June 3, 2022
“The desert as metaphor is that uncharted terrain beyond the edges of the seemingly secure and structured world in which we take such confidence, a world of affluence and order we cannot imagine ever ending. Yet it does. And at the point where the world begins to crack, where brokenness and disorientation suddenly overtake us, […]
Transformation – June 2, 2022
“For years I’ve told stories in teaching and, from time to time, at storytelling festivals and conferences. But this experience of being heard by a handful of pine trees in an Ozark wilderness finally pushed me over the edge, requiring that I acknowledge—humbly, and with amazement—that I, too, am a storyteller. A storyteller is one […]
Desire for Emptiness – June 1, 2022
“All I bring to the darkness each night is what the Cloud author calls a “naked intent,” a wish to be empty and still in the presence of that for which I have no name. The author of the Cloud says that if you find this unexplainable desire welling up within you, simply wanting time without speech with one […]
Not Seeing – May 31, 2022
“Not seeing the mountain, being frustrated in one’s quest, can be far more riveting to the imagination than succeeding in beholding what one sought… In Ku His’s classical pattern of Chinese landscape art, the subtle appeal of mountains is rooted in the artist’s skillful craft of omission; the peaks are half-dissolved in clouds. This is […]
