Posts in the Expressive Arts category

Teach us again how to begin the dance

The world and time are the dance of the Lord in emptiness. The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out into strange finalities and complex purposes of our own, the more we involve ourselves in [...]

Blessed Be

*POETRY PARTY – DRAWING WINNER* This week's Poetry Party was again filled with beauty.  I love the community that is created in this space around each theme and the way you share your own longings and vision through poetry.  The blessings and Beatitudes were so moving and so filled with gratitude for the small things [...]

Celebrate with me!!

Awakening the Creative Spirit: Bringing the Arts to Spiritual Direction – the book – is here! My box of books has arrived – I got a sneak peek at my new book at a book festival a week and a half ago and finally have my own copies to hold in my hand and savor.  [...]

Soul-Making

“It is this activity of working through disintegration that I consider to be at the core of the creative and therapeutic processes. I call this act “poesis” (following Heidegger’s use of the Greek word for poetry), and consider it to be at the center of human existence. “It is essential to human being to fall [...]