Evening falls over the Hood Canal
(taken from the cottage at the retreat center where we taught our intensive last week) -Christine Valters Paintner @ Abbey of the Arts
Dear darkening ground
Dear darkening ground, you’ve endured so patiently the walls we’ve built, perhaps you’ll give the cities one more hour and grant the churches and cloisters two, And those that labor—maybe you’ll let their work grip them another five hours, or seven before you become forest again, and widening wilderness in that hour of inconceivable terror […]
Say Yes
The Road Here is the road: the light comes and goes then returns again. Be gentle with your fellow travelers as they move through the world of stone and stars whirling with you yet every one alone. The road waits. Do not ask questions but when it invites you to dance at daybreak, say yes. […]
Waking
Holy Feasting
***Make sure you go visit this week’s Poetry Party*** Your poems this week about hidden rooms are as evocative and amazing as ever. Click the link above and continue to submit them and I’ll keep adding them! Early this past summer I had another dream about a hidden room: My husband and I move into a new apartment which […]
Invitation to Poetry: Hidden Rooms
This is Poetry Party No. 7! These are posted every other Monday. I select an image and suggest a title and invite you to respond with your poems, words, reflections, quotes, song lyrics, etc. Leave them in the comments and I’ll add them to the body of the post as they come in along with a […]
Feast of All Souls
Today in the Christian church is the Feast of All Souls, the day when we remember our loved ones who have died. I did not write a post about this today, perhaps because I have been talking a lot about grief and darkness lately and that felt like enough. But then I read Rachelle’s achingly beautiful […]