A friend forwarded this Call for Art Submissions on to me and I explored the links to discover the lovely and whimsical creations called MuseCubes. Gretchen Wegner is the inspiration behind these and they look like so much fun! She is in need of photo submissions to use on her future editions of the MuseCubes, [...]
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Are you missing the Abbey this week? I have been hard at work on my book Awakening the Creative Spirit: Bringing the Expressive Arts to Spiritual Direction, which I am co-writing with the delightful Betsey Beckman for Morehouse Publishing and is due at the end of the summer. With my husband away and my sweet [...]
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. . . Martha Louise! Send me your snail mail and I will send you a copy of my newest zine — Sacred Poetry: An Invitation to Write – on Monday.
Thank you to everyone who joined the Poetry Party. Make sure to stop by and visit the poems that have gathered there in honor of beginning [...]
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I am heading down to St. Placid Priory for our annual Oblate retreat which I am helping to facilitate.
Come back on Monday for our next Poetry Party!
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I am co-facilitating my last session of a pastoral ministry supervision group this morning with an amazing group of women and then this afternoon will be boarding a train for Oregon where I will attend the second part of my supervision training which began last summer. I am excited for five leisurely hours on the [...]
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The Poetry Party this week was sublime as usual, such an incredible group of poets who gather in this space. It is truly my privilege to host this party for you. Such illuminating words on Light & Shadow.
This week’s winner of a signed copy of my book Lectio Divina: Contemplative Awakening & Awareness is Beth Patterson at [...]
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Thank you again to everyone for your prayers for sweet Petunia. She had her surgery last week and is recovering well. We received some remarkable news — despite the initial needle aspirate test showing signs of cancer cells, in the actual biopsy they can’t find any signs at all of cancer. Seems it was a [...]
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For the month of June I am offering two specials:
Because I am nearing the end of my stock of my first Reflective Art Journal Praying with the Elements (which is the inspiration for one of the books I am currently writing for Ave Maria Press) and won’t be printing any new ones as my book will [...]
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lucy is inviting us to consider what six words would make up our memoir in this moment. Mine are:
urban monk bearing witness to beauty
I’d love to hear what your own six word memoir would be. Feel free to share it in the comments or at your own blog.
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. . . is tinkerbell the bipolar faery! Tinkerbell, send me your snail mail and I will send you your copy of Illuminating Mystery: Creativity as a Spiritual Practice.
Thank you for all the incredible submissions. Amazing what happens when you have 30+ poets break open a theme together. Go visit this week’s Poetry Party to see what I [...]
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