Archive for July, 2009

Happy Feast of St. Benedict!

Here are some of my favorite posts on monastic spirituality, sort of a "Best of Benedictine Spirituality" in honor of his Feast Day today: How to Be An Artist-Monk   Radical Hospitality   Rule of Life at the Abbey   Standing in Place (on Stability)   I Live My Life in Widening Circles (on the Hours [...]

Odds and Ends

Are you missing the Abbey this week?  I have been hard at work on my book Awakening the Creative Spirit: Bringing the Expressive Arts to Spiritual Direction, which I am co-writing with the delightful Betsey Beckman for Morehouse Publishing and is due at the end of the summer.  With my husband away and my sweet [...]

This week's winner is . . .

. . . Martha Louise! Send me your snail mail and I will send you a copy of my newest zine —  Sacred Poetry: An Invitation to Write – on Monday. Thank you to everyone who joined the Poetry Party.  Make sure to stop by and visit the poems that have gathered there in honor of [...]

The Last Wolf

The last wolf hurried toward me through the ruined city and I heard his baying echoes down the steep smashed warrens of Montgomery Street and past the few ruby-crowned highrises left standing their lighted elevators useless Passing the flicking red and green of traffic signals baying his way eastward in the mystery of his wild [...]

Illuminated Manuscripts

My newest article is up at Patheos for the series on Art and Spirit in the Church: I fell in love with the Cloisters as a child. A branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the north tip of Manhattan, it is constructed as a reproduction of a medieval cloister. Its collection contains art [...]