Nature as Icon Space
Sunrise over Georgia Strait, Sunshine Coast, BC I am up in British Columbia for a couple of days on the Sunshine Coast with a dear friend of mine. As I sit on the deck looking out over Georgia Strait to evergreen covered islands I am aware that nature is a holy text for me, an icon, […]
Spontaneity and Limitations
Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter – like the river banks – forcing the spontaneity into various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem. – Rollo May The creative life requires this gentle tension between freedom and structure, or spontaneity and limitations as May says. […]
Creating Personal Altars
I have an altar space in my prayer corner in our living room. It is set on top of a beautiful old secretary desk that is from my father’s family and so in the last century and a half has traveled from Latvia to Vienna to New York to Sacramento to San Francisco to Berkeley […]
Give Birth Slowly
A New Moon teaches gradualness and deliberation and how one gives birth to oneself slowly. Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe. What nine months of attention does for an embryo forty early mornings will do for your gradually growing wholeness. -Rumi Imagine if we allowed the moon to teach us the wisdom of patience. Or pregnancy to teach us the wisdom of slowness. What in your daily life might you take the time to observe to be reminded of the beauty and necessity of the slow unfolding of our souls?
BLOG Subscription Option
I have received some email requests from folks asking about how to subscribe to this blog. I have discovered Feedblitz, a simple website that does this well. Your email is used only to send you blog updates and is a separate process from being on the Creating Space mailing list. Here are the instructions: REGISTER for the […]
Trust In the Slow Work of God
To follow up on my last post, some wonderful and wise words from the great mystic Chardin: Above all, trust the slow work of God. We are, quite naturally, impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something […]
Celebrating Slowness
Those of you who have seen me and asked about my vacation in Kauai have heard me talk primarily about one thing: Sea Turtles. Snorkeling with those ancient and slow creatures was a highlight for me and turtles keep showing up in my imagination as a guide for me in these summer days. Last Friday I went […]