Before I came to Houston for the SDI Conference I had spent several intense days writing, writing, and more writing and all through it Abbess Petunia was a quiet, faithful presence encouraging me on.
Who is the muse in your own life?
Make sure to stop by the Poetry Party – the random drawing for a prize is tomorrow!
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Last week I began to send out the latest issue of my Reflective Art Journal — Illuminating Mystery: Creativity as a Spiritual Practice — a wonderful collaboration between several amazing artists and myself. The feedback is coming in and the comments go something like this:
“it’s beautiful! I always look forward to your Sacred Artist Interviews [...]
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Now I am revealing new things to you
Things hidden and unknown to you
Created just now, this very moment.
Of these things you have heard nothing until now.
So that you cannot say, Oh yes, I knew this.
-Isaiah 48:6-7
There is lots of newness here at the Abbey. In many ways it feels like spring has fully sprung (and [...]
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“A major obstacle to creativity is wanting to be in the peak season of growth and generation at all times . . . but if we see the soul’s journey as cyclical, like the seasons. . . then we can accept the reality that periods of despair or fallowness are like winter – a resting [...]
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There are a lot of new things blossoming here at the Abbey. Just last week I accepted a halftime position as the Program Coordinator for the Ignatian Spirituality Center that begins later this summer. I am delighted to be a part of the mission of this organization. While I reflect a lot here on Benedictine spirituality, Ignatian [...]
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Moon
The moon is full tonight
an illustration for sheet music,
an image in Matthew Arnold
glimmering on the English Channel,
or a ghost over a smoldering battlefield
in one of the history plays.
It’s as full as it was
in that poem by Coleridge
where he carries his year-old son
into the orchard behind the cottage
and turns the baby’s face to the sky
to see [...]
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A couple of weeks ago, in my interview with Heather Williams Durka, she used a phrase to describe her work as an artist that has stayed with me: “Serving the Mysteries.” I was really entranced by that image, because for me the spiritual journey is not so much about growing in certainty as it is about learning [...]
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This past week I was feeling pretty overtired from teaching all the previous weekend while recovering from a bug. Finally by Friday I began to feel like myself again. So it was a gift to have already planned to spend the morning meeting one of my favorite artists.
I first discovered Miska’s work at the Priory [...]
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The Fountain
Don’t say, don’t say there is no water
to solace the dryness at our hearts.
I have seen
the fountain springing out of the rock wall
and you drinking there. And I too
before your eyes
found footholds and climbed
to drink the cool water.
The woman of that place, shading her eyes,
frowned as she watched-but not because
she grudged the water,
only because [...]
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I am honored to be included in this compilation of quotes by artists speaking about their art as a part of a grant project to explore creativity and spirituality. Some intriguing words for reflection found there, not to mention links to some fabulous artists’ websites. Click on over to find some inspiration.
How would you articulate [...]
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