The Grace of Limits
There is irony to be sure, in the fact that yesterday I wrote a post about how helpful walking is for me as a spiritual practice in general, but especially as a part of grieving. Then last night I pulled a flattened box out from beside the fridge and out popped a strip of wood […]
Rituals and Practices for Grieving
When my mother died I felt let down by my church. It wasn’t even so much my particular parish—we had only been in Seattle a couple of months—as it was the lack of rituals for grieving in the Christian tradition as a whole. Certainly the funeral was comforting. Even the month of the dead, which […]
Blog Recommendations
Apparently yesterday was Blog Day 2006 which I found out from Swandive who tagged her readers (by the way, I forgot to mention in yesterday’s post, that she has some great comments on the poem she posted.) The purpose is to recommend 5 new blogs, these are some I read pretty regularly: (maybe this will prompt me […]