Wilderness as Necessity – Aug. 29, 2019
“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.” –Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
Look Them in the Face – Mar. 14, 2019
“In Dorothy L. Sayer’s novel Gaudy Night one of the characters recalls the extempore prayer of a well-meaning but incoherent curate, heard once and never forgotten, “Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be.” Taking our hearts and looking them in the face is the […]
Wilderness Work
Last Sunday, the Dayspring community blessed the opening of Earthen Hands, a pottery studio near the old farmhouse. It used to be a lawnmower shed, with the usual accumulation of machines, broken tools and extra parts. Now it’s clean, with two new windows and neat working spaces around Bud Wilkinson’s old kick-wheel – a gift […]
