What Remains – Mar. 31, 2023

“Those who have come through dark nights of their own, not just once but over and over again, often cannot find the words to say why they would not trade those nights for anything. Yes, they were nights of great loss… Yes, a great emptiness opened up where I had stored all my spiritual treasures, and […]

Our Real Work – Dec. 19, 2022

  “When we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded spring is the one that sings.”   -Wendell Berry, Standing by Words: Essays   […]

Living Faith

I have been pondering what it means to have faith. To cultivate a life where I listen with the ear of the heart and act with the conviction that my life is meant to bear witness to Love. But not just me and my life, you and yours too, each of us born to be a […]

To Be of Use – Aug. 2, 2022

The people I love the bestjump into work head firstwithout dallying in the shallowsand swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.They seem to become natives of that element,the black sleek heads of sealsbouncing like half-submerged balls. I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart,who pull like water buffalo, with […]