Naturalized – Apr. 20, 2020
“To become naturalized is to live as if your children’s future matters, to take care of the land as if our lives and the lives of all our relatives depend on it. Because they do.” –Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
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 […]
True Vocation – Jan. 21, 2020
“The deepest vocational question is not ‘What ought I to do with my life?’ It is the more elemental and demanding ‘Who am I? What is my nature?’” –Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening to the Voice of Vocation
Stern Teacher – Aug. 28, 2019
“Nature can be a stern teacher. Unwavering in her truth. If you are brave enough to wander into her recesses and release control of your life to a mystery larger than yourself, you may just come face-to-face with yourself–a soul unmasked.” –Anita Amstutz, Soul Tending: A Journey Into The Heart of Sabbath
