Advent Resource
I got a very gracious email from Jan Richardson, whose book Night Visions I highly recommended here a couple of weeks ago as my all-time favorite Advent resource. She reported that she is now sold out and hopes to have it re-published by next year. But she also shared with me an Advent blog she has […]
Pilgrimage Staff
One day while walking along the shores of the Hood Canal near my hermitage I found a great big wooden stick. It was sturdy and the right height so I brought it back to sit with it for a while and ask how it wanted me to embellish it. Often when I lead art programs […]
Invitation to Poetry: Waiting, Watching
Our 9th Poetry Party — what fun! 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 or email me and I’ll add them to the body of the post as they come in along with a link […]
kindness of strangers, embracing the unexpected
I was driving down to the Priory yesterday morning for my Advent Oblate retreat when about 20 miles down I-5 my car started vibrating and I saw smoke pluming from the rear. I was able to get off to the side of the road and slowly drove off the next exit. I thought there was something […]
Self-Portrait
The photo in the piece of art above was taken of me at age nineteen, during my junior year in college. I had a boyfriend at the time who was into photography, especially black and white, and I still have several of the photos he took of me. I think I find them striking because at […]
Awakening
Yesterday morning I awoke at my hermitage and stood in the kitchen to make some breakfast with my back to the window. I eventually turned around and saw a small rainbow across the waters of the Hood Canal over the Olympics. Leaving behind my food, I grabbed my camera and hurried down the steps to the […]
Divided
This photo is of my grandmother on my mother’s side. The baby is my uncle and the little girl is my mother. My uncle is the only one left alive from this image. I can see a theme developing in my art already — I used a wooden board as a base, adhered white tissue […]