In the fall the editor of the UCLA Spirituality and Higher Education Newsletter found my website through a search and asked me to write an article for their upcoming issue on spirituality and artistic expression. The article is titled “The Relationship Between Spirituality and Artistic Expression: Cultivating the Capacity for Imagining” and you can […]

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It has been just over a week now since Tune has come into our life.  If you had told me ten days ago that I would now be completely smitten with a nearly ten-year-old dog I would have been very surprised.  These are the things that can happen when you allow the Spirit to […]

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Last Wednesday night it snowed and then the temperatures dropped down below freezing so schools were closed because of icy roads and Thursday my husband and I had the surprise gift of a day off together.  We walked up to Volunteer Park and delighted in snowy wonder.  It is unusual for Seattle to get any snow […]

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Last night we invited four of our neighbors over for our Sabbath evening meal.  Below I share two new recipes I used that turned out really well and were not hard to make.  We feasted on good food and wine and then laughed for hours playing board games.  Our neighbors are delightful people, not folks we would probably get the […]

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Thank you all who left comments this week!  I am grateful for your support and for your ideas of other readings to include reflections on, and how wonderful that so many of you shared your own poems. I am touched by the amazing artists and poets who visit here.  If other readings come to you, please […]

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Give me this water, so I may not be thirsty.
-John 4:15
Fluent
I would love to live
Like a river flows
Carried by the surprise
Of its own unfolding.
-John O’Donohue
I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.
I want to free what waits within me
so that what no one has dared to wish for
may for once spring clear
without my […]

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I am the vine and you are the branches.
-John 15:5
God said, “Come no nearer! Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.
-Exodus 3:5
This earth we are riding keeps trying to tell us something with its continuous scripture of leaves. 
–William Stafford
I love the element of earth. I adore trees […]

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A feather on the breath of God. 
-Hildegard of Bingen
As swimmers dare
to lie face to the sky
and water bears them,
as hawks rest upon air
and air sustains them,
so would I learn to attain
freefall, and float
into Creator Spirits deep embrace,
knowing no effort earns
that all-surrounding grace.
-Denise Levertov
On a day
when the wind is perfect,
the sail just needs to open […]

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Abba Lot came to Abba Joseph and said: Father, according as I am able, I keep my little rule, and my little fast, my prayer, meditation and contemplative silence; and, according as I am able, I strive to cleanse my heart of thoughts: now what more should I do? The elder rose up in reply […]

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Meet Tune.  Her AKC name is actually Westend Desert Song.  She is a nine-year old Weimaraner who has spent most of her life in a breeding kennel without much attention.  The last four months she has been living with a family that has children and when they just adopted another child Tune was getting neglected […]

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