(taken from the cottage at the retreat center where we taught our intensive last week) -Christine Valters Paintner @ Abbey of the Arts
Archive for November, 2007
Dear darkening ground
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Dear darkening ground, you’ve endured so patiently the walls we’ve built, perhaps you’ll give the cities one more hour and grant the churches and cloisters two, And those that labor—maybe you’ll let their work grip them another five hours, or seven before you become forest again, and widening wilderness in that hour of inconceivable terror [...]
Say Yes
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The Road Here is the road: the light comes and goes then returns again. Be gentle with your fellow travelers as they move through the world of stone and stars whirling with you yet every one alone. The road waits. Do not ask questions but when it invites you to dance at daybreak, say yes. [...]
Blogging Break
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The winner of my drawing for a mini-set of my autumn prayer cards is Kathy Flugel Stone. Kathy if you send me your snail mail address by email I will send those out to you. Thanks again to everyone who participated. It is always a magical confluence of words and exploration. I want to sit some [...]
Waking
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***Make sure you go visit this week’s Poetry Party*** Get up from your bed, go out from your house, follow the path you know so well, so well that you now see nothing and hear nothing unless something can cry loudly to you, and for you it seems even then no cry is louder than [...]
Holy Feasting
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***Make sure you go visit this week's Poetry Party*** Your poems this week about hidden rooms are as evocative and amazing as ever. Click the link above and continue to submit them and I'll keep adding them! Early this past summer I had another dream about a hidden room: My husband and I move into a new apartment which [...]
Invitation to Poetry: Hidden Rooms
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This is Poetry Party No. 7! 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 [...]
Pre-Order a Copy of Callings!
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I've been talking a lot on the blog this week, so this weekend I am going to relish some silence and listening space in preparation for our Awakening the Creative Spirit program coming up in a week's time and some work on my next journal Callings, due out around December 1st. I am also hoping [...]
Feast of All Souls
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Today in the Christian church is the Feast of All Souls, the day when we remember our loved ones who have died. I did not write a post about this today, perhaps because I have been talking a lot about grief and darkness lately and that felt like enough. But then I read Rachelle's achingly beautiful [...]
Wisdom of the Sand
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(I believe this photo is of otter prints I discovered in the sand, I have only seen these wonderful creatures fleetingly. The photo below is of Tune's paw prints.) One of the great gifts of my time at the hermitage is being able to walk along the beach at low tide. Because the tides shift [...]
