Endings and Beginnings
Yesterday my sweet husband started back to work. It was faculty meeting day and today he gets to meet all of his students. I am always a bit sad at the end of summer–we get to spend so much time together and he truly is my best friend so we have a lot of fun, a […]
Going Naked
“My own belief is that one regards oneself, if one is a serious writer, as an instrument for experiencing. Life—all of it—flows through this instrument and is distilled through it into works of art. How one lives as a private person is intimately bound into the work. And at some point, I believe one has […]
Holding the Tension
A year ago today, I spent the day holding our beloved dog Duke as we waited for the vet to come over and put him to sleep. Just a day and a half prior he began to show signs of illness and we discovered he had an aggressive liver cancer that only shows signs when […]
Earth Teach Me
I found this beautiful prayer at The Longer Look: Earth teach me stillness as the grasses are stilled with light. Earth teach me suffering as old stones suffer with memory. Earth teach me humility as blossoms are humble with beginning. Earth teach me caring as the mother who secures her young. Earth teach me courage […]
Wonder
Earlier this summer I watched the film “Children of Men” with Clive Owens and Michael Caine. It is largely a bleak window into a future world where no children have been born for 18 years and everything is largely in chaos. A young black woman becomes pregnant and there is a race to protect and […]
A Visual Meditation
I have been tired today and not feeling all that well. It has been a slow day. So I make a simple offering tonight — go over to Anchors and Masts where Tess has created a beautiful video of images from Benedictine and Cistercian monasteries. It really is worth the click over (I am even too tired […]
Sense of Direction
Perhaps the most stressful part of our entire trip to Ireland in June was the driving and navigating. It wasn’t so much driving on the opposite side of the road, as the fact that almost all of their roads are extremely narrow. Every time a truck or bus came the other way I cringed, sure that […]