Plotting Resurrection – Sept. 30, 2022
“E.B. White watched his wife Katharine planning the planting of bulbs in her garden in the last autumn of her life and later wrote about it: “There was something comical yet touching in her bedraggled appearance… The small hunched-over figure, her studied absorption in the implausible notion that there would be yet another spring, oblivious […]
Telling Stories – Sept. 29, 2022
“Some stories will die with us if we do not tell them. Imagine the dark energy hidden in our favorite secular and religious texts, packed with treasure we could mine. Imagine the energy locked into our lives, wanting out in the form of stories or letters or family essays, or waiting for some special family […]
Hiding – Sept. 9, 2022
“To my mind, one of the great necessary inner disciplines is the ability to stay close to what is still hidden and unannounced in us, the interior ‘deep but dazzling darkness’ out of which any new and worthwhile future will be announced.” –David Whyte, Essentials, p. 102
Send Me Tough Angels – Sept. 2, 2022
I am not asking youto take this wilderness from me,to remove this place of darknesswhere I come to knowthe wildness within me,… But send metough angels,sweet wine,strong bread:just enough. –Jan Richardson, excerpt from “Desert Prayer“, In Wisdom’s Path, p. 54
