The winner of this week’s random drawing is Anne Sims at Stories and Faith. Anne, select a zine (Praying with the Elements, Callings, and What is Blossoming Within You?) and send me your snail mail address!
It was with great delight that I read this week’s responses to the Poetry Party, such a lush collection of [...]
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Picking Blueberries, Austerlitz, New York,1957
Once, in summer
in the blueberries,
I fell asleep, and woke
when a deer stumbled against me.
I guess
she was so busy with her own happiness
she had grown careless
and was just wandering along
listening
to the wind as she leaned down
to lip up the sweetness.
So, there we were
with nothing between us
but a few leaves, and wind’s
glossy voice
shouting [...]
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I first met Milton Brasher-Cunningham through the RevGalBlogPals, a blog ring for people who support the leadership of women in Christian communities. I was drawn to his blog ‘don’t eat alone‘ because it’s primarily about one of my favorite topics — food and the way food can be meaningful and sacred. Milton also writes about social justice, [...]
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Poetry Party Number Nineteen! 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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A brief blogging break for a few days to welcome in summer’s arrival, email replies will be slow as well. Enjoy the days ahead!
In the meantime, a few resources for you:
This beautiful article on “Quilting from the Soul: Living at the Intersection of Art and Spirituality” (and not just because she quotes me) by [...]
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I first met Trish through blogging almost two years ago and discovered her amazing gift of music. I love music I can use on retreats and in prayer experiences and hers is beautiful and very accessible. Every time I play one of her songs at a gathering, everyone wants to know the name of the [...]
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“Music arouses the sluggish soul to watchfulness. It has power to soften even hard hearts, and by rendering hearts moist it ushers in the Holy Spirit. Through the power of hearing, God opens to human beings all the glorious sounds of the hidden mysteries and of the choirs of angels by whom God is praised [...]
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I went to draw a name this morning from those who submitted poems for this week’s Poetry Party, and the winner is RILEY at Riley Fact or Fiction who happens to be a dog. I think this is our first canine winner of the name drawing! So Riley, consider yourself doubly lucky and choose one one of [...]
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I know the truth – give up all other truths!
No need for people anywhere on earth to struggle.
Look – it is evening, look, it is nearly night:
what do you speak of, poets, lovers, generals?
The wind is level now, the earth is wet with dew,
the storm of stars in the sky will turn to quiet.
And soon [...]
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I first discovered the quilting art of Larkin Van Horn through the Grunewald Guild where she will be teaching a summer class on Fabric Dyeing. I visited her website and was enchanted by her fabric art, especially her series of journal quilts. Not being inclined toward quilting myself, I was taken with the idea of creating [...]
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