I am leaving again to lead a retreat on Honoring Our Ancestors. These next few days are a threshold time in the Celtic calendar, when the veil between worlds is said to be especially thin. I have been lingering in this thin place for the last month and am eager to join with a group [...]
Archive for October, 2009
A Walk Can Change Everything
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. -Wallace Stevens I began my pilgrimage in Rome arriving late at night after my flight was delayed by several hours and I was bumped to a later connection. The first day of the World Congress of Benedictine Oblates was very full. I remember feeling filled with anticipation and [...]
Returning Home More Free
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A journey can become a sacred thing: Make sure, before you go, To take the time To bless your going forth, To free your heart of ballast So that the compass of your soul Might direct you toward The territories of spirit Where you will discover More of your hidden life, And the urgencies That [...]
Unexpected Bliss
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Christine at Blisschick invited me to reflect on a moment of "unexpected bliss" for her series this week. Stop by to read my reflections on the way language can express the "curves of (our) longing" . . . lovely for me to re-read these words I wrote before my trip as I sit now in [...]
Embracing the Night
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The darkness embraces everything, It lets me imagine a great presence stirring beside me. I believe in the night. -Rainer Maria Rilke in Book of Hours I write to you from the beautiful city of Vienna. I am in the middle of an amazing time of pilgrimage and journeying to the heart of myself. After [...]
