Sweet Darkness – Jan. 3, 2023
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweetconfinement of your alonenessto learn anything or anyonethat does not bring you alive is too small for you. –David Whyte, The House of Belonging, p. 23
Woodchuck Waits – Dec. 1, 2022
“Deep in his burrow he’s safe from other mouths. It’s his own hunger he has to escape. Winter has wiped bare his vegetarian table. He would starve if he stayed awake. Asleep—a sleep so deep his heart barely beats and his body cools to nearly the temperature of ice—he expends almost no energy. Only at […]
At the Hinge – Oct. 17, 2022
You brood in the night in its fearfulness,You dawn the day in its energy, You move at the edge of night into the margin of day.You take the feeble night and give us strong day, You take our fatigue and bestow courage, You take our drowsy reluctance and fashion full-blooded zeal.What shall we say? You, […]
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 […]
