I have been sitting with what I am being called to practice more attentively during the Lenten season that begins tomorrow. There are lots of possibilities calling to me and I have held them in the space of my heart and listened as well as I can in the midst of what has been a […]

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Our 12th Poetry Party!  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 or email me and I’ll add them to the body of the post as they come in along with a link back to your blog […]

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This weekend I worked, worked, worked, catching up on things, getting things done.  I felt very productive and now am ready for a day off! :-)  One of my projects was creating two new sets of prayer cards — one for discernment and one for grief.  Like my seasonal ones, these come in sets of […]

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Happy Feast of Imbolc, St. Brigid’s Day, Candlemas, and Groundhog Day!
Imbolc is a Celtic feast that is cross-quarter day, meaning it is the midway point between the winter solstice and spring equinox.  The sun marks the four Quarter Days of the year (the Solstices and Equinoxes) and the midpoints are the cross-quarter days.  In some cultures […]

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My hermitage faces west over the water, so most evenings are magical.  I love the twilight time when we get ready to embrace the darkness of night.
Let Evening Come
Let the light of late afternoon
shine through chinks in the barn, moving
up the bales as the sun moves down.
Let the cricket take up chafing
as a woman takes […]

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