About a month ago I posted an Abbey Bookshelf edition on Illuminated Manuscripts.  In that post I mentioned how I long for some of the Saint John’s Bible volumes.  In today’s mail, I received a package postmarked in Phoenix with editions of the Pentateuch, Psalms, Prophets, and Gospels and Acts.  How I swooned at the sight […]

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Percy (Two)
I have a little dog who likes to nap with me.
He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck.
He is sweeter than soap.
He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace,
which can’t even bark.
I would like to take him to Kashmir and the Ukraine,
and Jerusalem and Palestine and Iraq and Darfur,
that […]

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.
-M.C. Richards
The most visible creators I know of are those artists whose medium is life itself. The ones who express the unexpressible - without brush, hammer, clay or guitar. They neither paint nor sculpt - their medium is being. Whatever their presence touches […]

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. . . is Tom Delmore at Crow’s Perch!  Tom, email me with your snail mail address and your choice of zine — either Praying With the Elements, Callings, or What is Blossoming Within You? and I will send that off to you.
What an amazing collection of poetry as usual for this week’s Poetry Party.  […]

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The winner of the drawing for a copy of Praying With the Elements this week is Shaula at Coloring.  Please email me with your snail mail address!
Thanks to everyone’s glorious celebration of illumination this week.  Our next Poetry Party will be on Monday, April 28.

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This week’s winner of the random drawing for a copy of What is Blossoming Within You? is John at The Dirty Shame – John, email me with your snail mail address and that will be out to you in the mail Monday.
Thanks so much to everyone who participated.  Such an incredible collection of poems, so make sure […]

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. . . kigen!  kigen, email me with your snail mail and I will put a copy of What is Blossoming Within You? in the mail to you.
Such wonderful imaginations you all have, as always I thoroughly enjoyed reading each and every poem from this week’s Poetry Party and the stories you fashioned for the unknown.  Our […]

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While at my hermitage this weekend with my beloved (and Petunia of course), I encountered this sweet and patient hound who I couldn’t resist sharing with my canine friend Riley.  Go over and take a peek. . .

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Today’s reflection post is a hodge-podge of resources.  I am behind on a number of things as I try to finish up the winter quarter and get ready for a two-week pilgrimage back east at the end of March to visit family and friends.  More about that next week. 
Beth at the Virtual Tea House is hosting a wonderful blog […]

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The winner of the random drawing for this week’s Poetry Party is Wren at The Winding Mind.  Wren, please email me your mailing address and I will send you a set of Spring Prayer Cards.
Thank you to everyone who participated.  Make sure to go back and read all the marvelous submissions.  Our next Poetry Party […]

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