Greetings dear readers,
I am delighted to let you know that I have my first Offerings available for purchase: a set of hand-stamped notecards of the four elements made by me here in the Abbey. They make great gifts for yourself or a friend!
Please click here or on the Offerings link to the left.
This is a simple way [...]
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Book of Hours II, 16
How surely gravity’s law,
strong as an ocean current,
takes hold of even the strongest thing
and pulls it toward the heart of the world.
Each thing -
each stone, blossom, child -
is held in place.
Only we, in our arrogance,
push out beyond what we belong to
for some empty freedom.
If we surrendered
to earth’s intelligence
we could rise up [...]
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I shared a couple of months ago dreams I was having about playing the cello. After my third dream in about a month, I woke up and went for a walk to pray with the images that kept repeating themselves to me to pay attenton. Toward the end of my walk I went by Cornish [...]
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I am fashioned as a galaxy,
Not as a solid substance but a mesh
Of atoms in their far complexity
Forming the pattern of my bone and flesh.
Small solar systems are my eyes,
Muscle and sinew are composed of air.
Like comets flashing through the evening skies
My blood runs, ordered, arrogant, and fair.
Ten lifetimes distant is the nearest star,
And yet [...]
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Thank you for all of the lovely comments you left and emails you sent to me. I am very moved by your support and enthusiasm for the new site and am extremely happy in my new home, but still unpacking a few boxes.
The PDF versions of all my articles have been added to the Writing page. Just [...]
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Dearest Readers,
I am so very excited to announce my new website Abbey of the Arts. The door is open, tea is brewing, and there are lots of pages to peruse.
My blog is moving here permanently, the content will be the same focus on the sacred art of living with regular reflections of poetry, photos, art, [...]
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Top two photos taken at Greenlake in Seattle, bottom four on Granville Island in Vancouver
I find winter trees achingly beautiful, even more so this winter than any previous one I can remember. I see the black branches spread across the darkening sky and my heart swells with [...]
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Rachel at Swandive left me my 1000th comment and so is my drawing winner!
Another wonderful poem about finding the sacred in the most ordinary:
The Zen of Housework
I look over my own shoulder
down my arms
to where they disappear under water
into hands inside pink rubber gloves
moiling among dinner dishes.
My hands lift a wine glass,
holding it by the [...]
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I received my brand new Moo cards in the mail yesterday. Moo.com is a website that allows you to import photos from your Flickr account and create these fun little cards from them. They are about half as wide as normal business cards so you do have to crop the images for them [...]
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Welcome Morning
There is joy
in all:
in the hair I brush each morning,
in the Cannon towel, newly washed,
that I rub my body with each morning,
in the chapel of eggs I cook
each morning,
in the outcry from the kettle
that heats my coffee
each morning,
in the spoon and the chair
that cry “hello there, Anne”
each morning,
in the godhead of the table
that I [...]
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