A Brief Stop… – Apr. 2, 2021
It could all go in a minute. It WILL all go in a minute.This life is a brief stop, whether I die tomorrow or in fifty years.I would love not to know this, to have the innocent certainty that,when loved ones set out on a journey, they will return unharmed,that I can go out to […]
Witness – Mar. 19, 2021
Sometimes the mountainis hidden from me in veilsof cloud, sometimesI am hidden from the mountainin veils of inattention, apathy, fatigue,when I forget or refuse to godown to the shore or a few yardsup the road, on a clear day,to reconfirmthat witnessing presence. -Denise Levertov, Selected Poems
Opening Prayer – Mar. 17, 2021
You are above me, O God,you are within.You are in all thingsyet contained by no thing.Teach me to seek you in all that has lifethat I may see you as the Light of life.Teach me to search for you in my own depthsthat I may find you in every living soul. -John Philip Newell, Sounds […]
Take a Step – Feb. 12, 2021
Whoever you are: some evening take a stepout of your house, which you know so well.Enormous space is near. -Excerpt from “The Way In” by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Robert Bly
