-Christine Valters Paintner @ Abbey of the Arts
(photos taken at Golden Gardens in Seattle)
Dearest dancing monks, artists, and pilgrims, We are absolutely thrilled and delighted to release the first day of our new video podcasts for the Cultivating Seeds of Liberation prayer cycle! We are so grateful to Wisdom Council member and dear friend Betsey Beckman for all her
St. Francis at the Corner PubApproaching the door, you can alreadyhear his generous laughter.He stands on the bar upside down for a momentto get a new perspective on things,a flash of polka-dotted boxersas his brown robe cascades over his head,sandaled toes wiggling in the air
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission to the Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Natalie Gould’s reflection A Wooden Cross from Assisi. In October 2000, I traveled to Assisi, Italy. During a two-and-a-half-mile walk through the
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I live in a valley near Mt. Rainier and after all the places I have traveled, our area has some of the most amazing sunsets that I have ever seen.
Here is my favorite sunset picture I took a few years ago down in California. Enjoy.
http://www.morethancake.org/2008/02/sublime-fatherhood.html
thank you! you KNOW i LOVE this!!!! :-)
steadily and with all the honesty our language can barely hope to express ms. oliver invites the joining of our self-centered orbit to a greater one … leading ever so simply yet deftly to ten breathtaking, mirror reflecting words …
“or have you too
gone crazy
for power,
for things?”
this is why i love mary oliver! again and again, hers is a voice innocent and profoundly wise.
thank you for sharing how you see, christine. what you see and how you see it is beautiful. so very beautiful!
Thank you for posting this poem by Mary Oliver and your beautiful photos. Such wonderful inspirations.
Mary explains it so well….” and have you ever felt for anything such wild love “.
Oh, Chrstine. What a wonderful beginning to my day. Fantastic poems…stunning pictures.
You and Mary both ROCK!
Beautiful words and art thank you