Travel to Chiapas for Art & Spirit
This trip sounds amazing and I would be signing up if it didn’t conflict with a major event I coordinate for one of my jobs. So I am encouraging any of you who might be interested in traveling with a group of pilgrims for an experience that is sure to be filled with creative inspiration […]
Celebrate with Me!
I just hit the “SEND” button to deliver our manuscript to the Publisher right on time. Awakening the Creative Spirit: Bringing the Arts to Spiritual Direction (co-authored with Betsey Beckman) is scheduled for publication in early February 2010 by Morehouse (SDI Imprint Series). More details to come! For right now I am just going to […]
Let Art Offer Both Joy and Solace
Two Visual Meditation Reprises for this day: The first, Happy Birthday to my dear friend, this one is for you. The second, in loving memory of the terrible loss of 8 years ago.
Mothers and Grandmothers
“And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see—or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.” -Alice Walker, from In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens Last week I shared an encounter which made me […]
Monastic Wisdom
A monastery can never be merely an escape from the world. Its very purpose is to enable us to face the problems of the world at their deepest level, that is to say, in relation to God and eternal life. Everything in the monastic life down to the deepest level has to be viewed from […]
Visual Meditation: The Sea’s Edge
Photos taken at Golden Gardens beach in Seattle. Photos © Christine Valters Paintner at Abbey of the Arts: Transformative Living through Contemplative & Expressive Arts
To my Beloved
Happy 15th Anniversary my Love! Take it away Pablo . . . ______ Don’t go far off, not even for a day, because — because — I don’t know how to say it: a day is long and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station when the trains are parked off […]