Logos – May 3, 2021
Why worry about the loaves and fishes?If you say the right words, the wine expands.If you say them with loveand the felt ferocity of that loveand the felt necessity of that love,the fish explode into many.Imagine him, speaking,and don’t worry about what is reality,or what is plain, or what is mysterious.If you were there, it […]
The Swan – Mar. 25, 2020
Did you too see it, drifting, all night, on the black river? Did you see it in the morning, rising into the silvery air – An armful of white blossoms, A perfect commotion of silk and linen as it leaned into the bondage of its wings; a snowbank, a bank of lilies, Biting the air […]
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 […]
Past the Provable – May 31, 2019
“Knowledge has entertained me and it has shaped me and it has failed me. Something in me still starves. In what is probably the most serious inquiry of my life, I have begun to look past reason, past the provable, in other directions. Now I think there is only one subject worth my attention and […]
