Our Twenty-First 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 [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Visual Meditation: "I was called for this"
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"At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are." -Czeslaw Milosz (most of these photos have appeared on this blog before, but the quote inspired me to group [...]
Sacred Artist Interview: Marcy Hall
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I first encountered Marcy Hall's work through her partner's blog blisschick who comments here very thoughtfully from time to time. I was delighted to follow the links that landed me at Marcy's website because I discovered an artist with a wonderful sense of playfulness to her work, while at the same time exploring very sacred themes. [...]
Landscapes, Maps, and Pilgrimages
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A Great Pilgrimage I felt in need of a great pilgrimage so I sat still for three days and God came to me. -Kabir Tomorrow is my birthday and lately I have been longing for some retreat time. I was wise enough to block off the next few days to rest in some stillness at [...]
Welcoming in Joy
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Season by the Sea: A Contemporary Book of Hours has finally arrived on my doorstep! Thank you for your patience everyone. I have just made the journey to the post office today to send the first batch out to subscribers and those who pre-ordered. If you haven't yet, I would love your support by placing an order for [...]
Radical Hospitality
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This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. [S]he may [...]
Wonder and Despair
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The Love of Morning It is hard sometimes to drag ourselves back to the love of morning after we've lain in the dark crying out O God, save us from the horror . . . . God has saved the world one more day even with its leaden burden of human evil; we wake to [...]
Winner
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This week's winner of the random drawing for the Poetry Party is Tess at Anchors and Masts. Tess, email me with your snail mail and I will be sending you a copy of my newest zine Season by the Sea: A Contemporary Book of Hours by the end of this coming week. Thanks to everyone for their stunning [...]
Visual Meditation: To Learn From Animal Being (& Happy Birthday Tune!)
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excerpted from "To Learn from Animal Being" May we learn to return and rest in the beauty Of animal being, Learn to lean low, Leave our unlocked minds, And with freed senses Feel the earth Breathing with us. May we enter Into lightness of spirit, And slip frequently into The feel of the wild. Let [...]
Invitation to Poetry: Clear-Eyed
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Our Twentieth 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 [...]
