For the last Poetry Party I invited you to reflect on the theme of the “beauty of broken things.” Your poetic responses were marvelous, spanning a wide spectrum of possibility and exploration. Many of the images moved me, such as “I am the hidden underside of things” and “ice so cold it is also fire” [...]
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Last Saturday I attended a concert of the Seattle Choral Company called “Celtic Nights” which marked the upcoming feast of Samhain on November 1st. Samhain is the beginning of a new year in Celtic tradition and is primarily a celebration of ancestors and harvest. It is considered one of the great doorways of the Celtic year [...]
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Morning Poem
Every morning
the world
is created.
Under the orange
sticks of the sun
the heaped
ashes of the night
turn into leaves again
and fasten themselves to the high branches —
and the ponds appear
like black cloth
on which are painted islands
of summer lilies.
If it is your nature
to be happy
you will swim away along the soft trails
for hours, your imagination
alighting everywhere.
And if your spirit
carries [...]
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I have been neglectful of my lovely web ring lately, not making the rounds to see what creative things are happening in the blogosphere. So I hereby resolve to make this a more regular part of my reading and blogging activity. Look for an every-other-week highlights (alternating with the Poetry Party) of what is happening [...]
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The week before last was the fourth anniversary of my mother’s death and I shared here before that I have been feeling called to walk willingly into some dark places. It turns out that the anniversary was also the day I had to end a friendship. Friendship to me has always been sacramental and so not [...]
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Rachelle at Magpie Girl has a wonderful Small is Beautiful campaign to support small and passionate bloggers. As a part of this project she is getting a very early start on suggestions for holiday gift-giving from some of these creative souls (including yours truly). Click over to find several beautiful suggestions for handmade gifts from artists.
Wouldn’t [...]
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There was such wonderful participation again for Monday’s Poetry Party, make sure you go back and linger over the 21 entries (and 18 of those are original poems). These events always feel filled with such grace and abundance to me. Thank you to everyone who contributed, I am grateful for the virtual creative community that [...]
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***Make sure you visit this week’s Poetry Party either by scrolling down past this post or by clicking here – as usual it is an amazing array of sacred words that keeps growing***
“Hear blessings / dropping their blossoms / around you. ” -Rumi
-Christine Valters Paintner @ Abbey of the Arts
(photos of the dahlias at Volunteer Park in Seattle)
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***Make sure you visit the Poetry Party either by scrolling down past this post or by clicking here***
“Come along inside… We’ll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place.”
-The Wind in the Willows
I love the tradition of tea in the afternoon, especially high tea. Something about taking time to slow down, sip [...]
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Welcome to our 6th Poetry Party. These are posted every other Monday. I select an image and suggest a title and invite you to respond with your poems, words, reflections, quotes, song lyrics, etc. Leave them in the comments and I’ll add them to the body of the post as they come in along with a [...]
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