This trip sounds amazing and I would be signing up if it didn't conflict with a major event I coordinate for one of my jobs. So I am encouraging any of you who might be interested in traveling with a group of pilgrims for an experience that is sure to be filled with creative inspiration [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Celebrate with Me!
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I just hit the "SEND" button to deliver our manuscript to the Publisher right on time. Awakening the Creative Spirit: Bringing the Arts to Spiritual Direction (co-authored with Betsey Beckman) is scheduled for publication in early February 2010 by Morehouse (SDI Imprint Series). More details to come! For right now I am just going to [...]
Visual Meditation: Evening Sky
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"There have been evenings when the light has turned everything silver, and like you I have stopped at a corner and suddenly staggered with the grace of it all." -William Stafford © Christine Valters Paintner at Abbey of the Arts: Transformative Living through Contemplative & Expressive Arts END OF SUMMER SALE at the Abbey Shop [...]
Let Art Offer Both Joy and Solace
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Two Visual Meditation Reprises for this day: The first, Happy Birthday to my dear friend, this one is for you. The second, in loving memory of the terrible loss of 8 years ago.
Mothers and Grandmothers
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“And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see—or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.” -Alice Walker, from In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens Last week I shared an encounter which made me [...]
Monastic Wisdom
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A monastery can never be merely an escape from the world. Its very purpose is to enable us to face the problems of the world at their deepest level, that is to say, in relation to God and eternal life. Everything in the monastic life down to the deepest level has to be viewed from [...]
Visual Meditation: "I go down to the edge of the sea"
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Breakage I go down to the edge of the sea. How everything shines in the morning light! The cusp of the whelk, the broken cupboard of the clam, the opened, blue mussels, moon snails, pale pink and barnacle scarred— and nothing at all whole or shut, but tattered, split, dropped by the gulls onto the [...]
Poetry Party Drawing
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This week’s Poetry Party was, as usual, a transcendent collection of poetic beauty! Take some time this weekend to pour yourself some tea and linger over these "moments." The winner of my random drawing for a copy of Sacred Poetry: An Invitation to Write is Beth Patterson of the Virtual Tea House – Beth, send me your [...]
To my Beloved
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Happy 15th Anniversary my Love! Take it away Pablo . . . ______ Don't go far off, not even for a day, because – because — I don't know how to say it: a day is long and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station when the trains are parked off [...]
"In your light. . ."
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In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art. -Rumi Monday night I went to the cemetery to meet my friend and writing/teaching partner Betsey Beckman who has created [...]
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