-Christine Valters Paintner @ Abbey of the Arts
(photos taken along the shore of the Hood Canal)
The winner of this week’s Poetry Party drawing will be announced later today! There’s still time to add your poem — currently up to 23 participants which is a wonderful outpouring of creative energy.
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission to the Monk in the World guest post series. Read on for Jodi Blazek Gehr’s reflection on being a Benedictine oblate. St. Benedict is special to me for a few reasons. First, we share a birthday. I admit I was
Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, I am delighted to share I have a third poetry collection being published on May 9th from Paraclete Press titled Love Holds You: Poems and Devotions for Times of Uncertainty. This poem was inspired by one of my favorite monastic sites near
This week we are featuring one of our Hildy Tails. This series of essays were composed last year for our Sustainers Circle. They were dictated to John by the Abbey’s mascot, Hildy the Monk-ey. Hildy is a bit of a free spirit who likes to
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Thank you Elaine, what a lovely thing to say. :-)
I’m viewing these photos Sunday evening when it is dark outside.
The photos are radiant — I don’t know if this is the right word but the light is exquisite. You’ve captured the quality of rare (in Coastal Washington/BC) winter sunlight.
Tess wrote about prayer today and when I view your photos, I feel like I am looking at prayers that praise Creation that in turn evoke prayers of gratitude — for Nature, for Artists, for Communities of Friends — in me.
Thank you.
Thanks SS!
Beautiful photography. You’ve captured the “Original Creator/Artist’s” beautiful land and seascapes. Thank you!
SS
Thanks you all! :-)
Total Serenity. Pure Beauty. Soul Medicine.
Oooooh! I am not a good waiter!
These were wonderful.Thank you for sharing.
Beautiful photos! I really do relate to your photography. A beautiful site.
Wonderful. Thank you.
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