Tomorrow is the feast of Beltane, the first day of summer according to the Celtic calendar.  Like its sister feast of Samhain on November 1st, it is a time when the boundary between this world and the Other world is believed to be especially thin.  It is also a time of lighting bonfires for rituals of purification and […]

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Have you visited the Sacred Arts Web Ring lately?  There’s lots of nourishment for the soul: 
Poetry 
Rich at Pilgrim Path is posting his wonderful poems, I especially love his latest two: “Eventually” and  “Angels of Comfort” about the beauty of Sabbath.  Kate at Thru My Lens Lightly shares about Happy Endings with a lovely poem and image.
Visual Art 
Bette […]

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It seems this week I am short on my own words and am drawn to lots of poetry and images I have been taking of spring.  Part of it is that I have been feeling in a very reflective and inward mood, wanting to let things bubble inside of me, not quite ready to lay them out here.  Besides, […]

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Ninth Duino Elegy (excerpt)
Earth, isn’t this what you want?  To arise in us, invisible?
Is it not your dream, to enter us so wholly
there’s nothing left outside us to see?
What, if not transformation,
is your deepest purpose?  Earth, my love,
I want that too.  Believe me,
no more of your springtimes are needed
to win me over - even one […]

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Have you ever looked closely at the purple petals of an Iris in the golden afternoon sun? Have you seen how luminescent they are, glowing from a source deep within?  Have you watched the way they fold themselves over gently, inviting you to pause for a moment and embrace a sense of  wonder? Have you noticed the way everything lights […]

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Testimony
(for my daughters)
I want to tell you that the world
is still beautiful.
I tell you that despite
children raped on city streets, 
shot down in school rooms,
despite the slow poisons seeping
from old and hidden sins
into our air, soil, water,
despite the thinning film
that encloses our aching world. 
Despite my own terror and despair.
 
I want you to know that spring
is no […]

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This is from Barbara Cawthorne Crafton’s Geranium Farm daily email, originally discovered at Possible Water:
Well, when would be the best time to commit a crime? Wouldn’t it be right after another one had been committed in another place nearby, when everyone’s attention was focussed on the first one? Such a plan makes enough terrible sense […]

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I am interrupting my planned blogging break to announce that I won the Inspirational category of The Best of Blogs awards!  I am really touched and so grateful to all of you who voted for me and support me in a variety of ways.
On my way up to the Spiritual Directors International conference in Vancouver […]

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Tomorrow I head off to the Spiritual Directors International Conference being held this year in Vancouver, BC.  I am especially looking forward to my workshops on First Nations cosmology and one on animal companionship and spirituality. 
When I return Sunday I have two projects I really need to focus some time and energy on, so I am […]

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I have a new Water & Ocean series of photo notecards available at my Offerings page.  Eight different images to a set, $14 for each set (includes 8 envelopes) plus shipping and always a little extra treat included.  Please email me to order and I will send you an invoice through Paypal where you can […]

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