Keep the Poems Coming!
Thanks to everyone who has submitted their poems already for the Poetry Party! 11 participants on the very first day is a great showing. Make sure to scroll down or click here to see the fun. And make sure to check out Annie Thorndike’s wonderful poem, I think our youngest ever participant at the age […]
Invitation to Poetry: Full Moon Rising
This is our 8th 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 link […]
Abbey Bookshelf (pre-Advent edition)
Advent begins a week from today and it is one of my favorite liturgical seasons in the Christian tradition. Advent begins the new church year and is a season about waiting, preparing, and birthing. It also occurs at one of my favorite times of year, this slow descent toward winter and the solstice. This autumn was […]
Frozen Earth
Remember to come back on Monday for our next Poetry Party! (Leaves discovered on the ground outside my hermitage this morning.) May your weekend bring you the still gifts of winter’s release and rest. -Christine Valters Paintner @ Abbey of the Arts
On Gratitude
Listen with the night falling we are saying thank you we are stopping on the bridge to bow from the railings we are running out of the glass rooms with our mouths full of food to look at the sky and say thank you we are standing by the water looking out in different directions […]
Happy Thanksgiving
Cusp of Winter
11 a.m. late November shadows (photos from a late autumn walk through my Capitol Hill neighborhood in Seattle) -Christine Valters Paintner @ Abbey of the Arts