-Christine Valters Paintner @ Abbey of the Arts
(photos taken at Golden Gardens in Seattle)
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission to the Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Anne Donze Gerber’s rewrites of Psalms 122 and 23 she created during the Earth Monastery retreat*. During The Earth Monastery Retreat in
Dearest dancing monks, artists, and pilgrims, Tomorrow I start teaching a 4-week e-course on practicing with medieval women mystics for the lovely team at Spirituality & Practice. Teresa of Avila, Julian of Norwich, Mechtild of Magdeburg, and Hildegard of Bingen will be our focus and each week
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission to the Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Carol Delmonico’s reflection and poems For Living Close to Death and For Surgery. Writing has been one of my early morning contemplative
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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