In honor of the Harvest Moon tonight, images of autumn's abundance: -Christine Valters Paintner @ Abbey of the Arts (images of dahlias taken in Volunteer Park in Seattle)
Archive for September, 2008
Awakening the Creative Spirit
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Experiential Education for Spiritual Directors in the Expressive Arts Betsey Beckman and I have scheduled new dates for our next offering of this wonderful program. Consider joining us May 17-22, 2009 on the beautiful Hood Canal for five days of creative exploration and deep discovery through storytelling, poetry writing, visual art-making, movement, and song. The [...]
this week's winner . . .
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. . . of the Poetry Party random drawing is Laure! Laure, send me your snail mail and I will get a copy of my Callings zine out in the mail to you. Thank you to everyone who participated, the poems as usual ranged from the delightfully silly to the sublime. I am blessed with wonderfully [...]
9/11
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Three simple links in honor of today: A Visual Meditation I posted last spring with images of Ground Zero after returning from my trip to the east coast. Jan Richardson at The Painted Prayerbook is one of my favorite artists and writers. She writes a weekly post at her blog on the Gospel reading for that [...]
Visual Meditation: Autumn Harbingers
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Lake and Maple I want to give myself utterly as this maple that burned and burned for three days without stinting and then in two more dropped off every leaf; as this lake that, no matter what comes to its green-blue depths, both takes and returns it. In the still heart that refuses nothing, the [...]
Invitation to Poetry: Waiting
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Our 23rd 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 [...]
Finding a New Poet
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A New Poet Finding a new poet is like finding a new wildflower out in the woods. You don't see its name in the flower books, and nobody you tell believes in its odd color or the way its leaves grow in splayed rows down the whole length of the page. In fact the very [...]
Visual Meditation: "walking in wonder past the vivid windows"
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Poem Some are too much at home in the role of wanderer, watcher, listener: who, by lamplit doors that open only to another’s knock, commune with shadows and are happier with ghosts than living guests in a warm house. They drift about the darkening city squares, coats blown in evening winds and fingers feeling familiar [...]
Happy Anniversary My Love
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* When you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world. -Pablo Neruda * Fourteen years of marriage my beloved. Sixteen years since we first met. My love spreads wider each day. Marriage is much harder work than I ever expected, and far more rewarding [...]
The Vulnerable Body
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One of the most amazing places we visited during our summer journeying was the bone chapel in Hallstatt, Austria. The link to the article provides some more information, but essentially in this beautiful little village tucked between mountain and lake, bones from the cemetery used to be removed to make room for the newly dead. [...]
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