The Inukshuk is an Inuit symbol of welcome and you find them frequently in Canada. Sometimes they point the direction of safe passage or mark an important place. This one is near the top of Whistler Mountain. We spent a couple of days over Christmas at Whistler and it was quite a magical place to [...]
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Blessings to you dear readers in these winter days when the trees invite us to contemplate our essence and the faint light traveling low across the sky beckons us to rest. The Winter Solstice is tomorrow, when the earth begins her slow tilt to welcome back the light.
The Abbey is on sabbatical until the New Year. Christine, John, and Tune [...]
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As I mentioned the other day, Waverly Fitzgerald has created a French Revolutionary Wall Calendar which features my nature photographs illustrating the seasonal theme of the particular month in the French Revolutionary calendar, for instance, January is Snowy/Rainy, and each day is marked with the item meant to be honored on that day. Usually these are plants [...]
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I am out at my hermitage and forgot to bring my camera, so I can’t show you what I’ve been working on. So instead I did a lap around the Sacred Arts Ring and offer you much beauty to peruse below. I will be posting for the Solstice on Friday and then taking a blogging break [...]
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Greetings dear readers,
This Advent has been a rich time for me so far and I have been doing a lot of reflecting on my creative life as well as actively creating! Many new ideas are percolating in me, especially lots of collaborative possibilities. Some things to look for in 2008:
A twice-monthly email newsletter with reflections [...]
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“a shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse,
and from his roots a bud shall blossom.”
-Isaiah 11:1 (from the second Sunday of Advent)
Yesterday I gathered together all of the images I had found of my aunt and uncle (my mother’s siblings) as children and worked on creating something for each of them as a gift this [...]
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Shoveling Snow With Buddha
In the usual iconography of the temple or the local Wok
you would never see him doing such a thing,
tossing the dry snow over a mountain
of his bare, round shoulder,
his hair tied in a knot,
a model of concentration.
Sitting is more his speed, if that is the word
for what he does, or does not [...]
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Tim
You’ve only just arrived
Now you’ve begun to go
My God, how much I love you
How my whole body aches with
The glory that is you.
Constantly changing, sometimes slowly,
Sometimes in one heartbeat
Or the blink of an eye.
Becoming,
always becoming,
your self.
Already my hands rest open
You sitting there in the palm
of my hand
Stretching your wings
Testing the wind
Learning [...]
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I thought some of you might be interested to see the original photos I cropped to make the art piece for Monday’s Poetry Party. The woman on the top was my paternal grandmother Erika who died when I was one year old. The middle woman I actually don’t know, I found her photo among the [...]
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Consent
There was the minute no one speaks of,
when she could still refuse.
A breath unbreathed,
Spirit,
suspended,
waiting.
She did not cry,”I cannot, I am not worthy,”
nor, “I have not the strength.”
She did not submit with gritted teeth,
raging,coerced.
Bravest of all humans,
consent illumined her.
The room filled with its light,
the lily glowed in it,
and the irridescent wings.
Consent,
courage unparreled,
opened her utterly.
-Denise Levertov
A friend [...]
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