The Way Forward
Who am I now? Without a job title or paycheck? It’s a question that many retirees wrestle with, and one forced on many younger people by the current pandemic. Tragically, it’s a question that often leads to heart attacks and alcoholism, to mental health distress and despair. The lead article in today’s paper predicts a […]
At the Still Point – Apr. 29, 2020
Time and the bell have buried the day,The black cloud carries the sun away.Will the sunflower turn to us, will the clematisStray down, bend to us; tendril and sprayClutch and cling? ChillFingers of yew be curledDown on us? After the kingfisher’s windHas answered light to light, and is silent, the light is stillAt the still […]
From the Prayer of Saint Francis – Apr. 9, 2020
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.Where there is hatred, let me sow love;Where there is injury, pardon;Where there is doubt, faith;Where there is despair, hope;Where there is darkness, light;Where there is sadness, joy. –St. Francis of Assisi
Stay Awhile – Feb. 24, 2020
Around me the trees stir in their leavesand call out, “Stay awhile.”The light flows from their branches. And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,“and you, too, have comeinto the world to do this, to go easy, to be filledwith light, and to shine.” –Mary Oliver, excerpt from “When I Am Among the Trees” Quotations […]
