



-Christine Valters Paintner @ Abbey of the Arts
(photos taken at Golden Gardens in Seattle)




-Christine Valters Paintner @ Abbey of the Arts
(photos taken at Golden Gardens in Seattle)

Dearest dancing monks, artists, and pilgrims, This Friday, May 22nd we welcome Wisdom Council member, spiritual director, and musician Dr. Richard Bruxvoort Colligan for a retreat on The Psalms and a Gloriously Disrupted Life. During the retreat Richard will guide us in an immersion of his favorite part of
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission to the Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Amy Oden’s reflection The Ministry of Creation. I noticed it first when I needed respite from the demands of caregiving for my

Dearest dancing monks, artists, and pilgrims, Tomorrow is our monthly contemplative prayer service and because Simon is in the middle of a big transatlantic move, I will be joined instead by Nóirín Ní Riain, a wonderful friend here in Ireland many of you know well. Because it
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I live in a valley near Mt. Rainier and after all the places I have traveled, our area has some of the most amazing sunsets that I have ever seen.
Here is my favorite sunset picture I took a few years ago down in California. Enjoy.
http://www.morethancake.org/2008/02/sublime-fatherhood.html
thank you! you KNOW i LOVE this!!!! :-)
steadily and with all the honesty our language can barely hope to express ms. oliver invites the joining of our self-centered orbit to a greater one … leading ever so simply yet deftly to ten breathtaking, mirror reflecting words …
“or have you too
gone crazy
for power,
for things?”
this is why i love mary oliver! again and again, hers is a voice innocent and profoundly wise.
thank you for sharing how you see, christine. what you see and how you see it is beautiful. so very beautiful!
Thank you for posting this poem by Mary Oliver and your beautiful photos. Such wonderful inspirations.
Mary explains it so well….” and have you ever felt for anything such wild love “.
Oh, Chrstine. What a wonderful beginning to my day. Fantastic poems…stunning pictures.
You and Mary both ROCK!
Beautiful words and art thank you