Invitation to Poetry: Unknown
Our 14th Poetry Party! 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 back to your […]
Sacred Artist Interview: David Ash
I met David through my dear friend and teaching partner Betsey Beckman. My husband and I went to the teahouse where her husband and son were performing music that night and we ended up sitting next to David. He and his wife have been long-time friends with Betsey through their role as musicians. We spent the […]
Sacred Artist Interview: Jan Richardson
I have been a fan of Jan Richardson‘s work for a long time. Her books In Wisdom’s Path: Discovering the Sacred in Every Season and Night Visions: Searching the Shadows of Advent and Christmas are two of my favorites because of their combining of word and image. Unfortunately the latter of those two is only available […]
Sacred Artist Interview: Maggie Yowell
I first met Maggie Yowell when she came to me for spiritual direction and then later she participated in our Awakening the Creative Spirit program. It was more of a continued nurturing in the program since she had long been awakened through her work in SoulCollage, both as artist and facilitator of the process. In […]
Abbey Bookshelf: Poetry Writing Edition
I adore poetry and often find it to be a source of profound wisdom as valuable to me as other sacred texts. I sometimes write them myself and post them, although they often stay tucked in the pages of my journal. I love to lead poetry-writing exercises in some of my retreat and training programs, and of course I adore hosting […]
Serving the Mysteries
A couple of weeks ago, in my interview with Heather Williams Durka, she used a phrase to describe her work as an artist that has stayed with me: “Serving the Mysteries.” I was really entranced by that image, because for me the spiritual journey is not so much about growing in certainty as it is about learning […]
Sacred Artist Interview: Miska
I wrote about meeting Miska for the first time a couple of weeks ago. She extended a very warm hospitality to me. I really enjoyed talking with her and getting to know the artist behind the beautiful artwork I have admired for so long now. When she told me she was teaching a painting class, I […]
