What She Does Not Know Poetry Video ~ A Love Note From Your Online Abbess
What She Does Not Know – Poem Video from Abbey of the Arts on Vimeo. What She Does Not Know (for unsuspecting Selkies everywhere) She does not know there is a reason she always feels out of place her life rigid and small, like living in a doll’s house a marriage more trap than longing […]
Once Poetry Video + Autumn Equinox ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Once – Poem Video from Abbey of the Arts on Vimeo. Once my hands were made of silver, delicate, refined, needing to be polished daily, glinting on sun-heavy days until I made my way into the woods listened for long while, ear pressed to soft earth thirsty for the song I heard among roots and […]
Things I Didn’t Know I Loved Poetry Video~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Things I Didn’t Know I Loved – Poem Video from Christine Valters Paintner on Vimeo. Things I Didn’t Know I Loved (after Nazim Hikmet) I never knew how much I loved heavy rain on a Sunday morning curled in bed with coffee a Morse code tapping the windows telling me I have no reason to […]
Nocturne (a new poetry video) ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Nocturne – Poem Video from Christine Valters Paintner on Vimeo. Nocturne Sometimes I awaken at night although still in a dream and the air around me is violet. Here in the heart of the forest I am elegance of swan, fierceness of bear, sweetness of squirrel, I am all these things under night’s generous embrace, […]
The Wisdom of Wild Grace: A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
The Wisdom of Wild Grace from Christine Valters Paintner on Vimeo. Dearest monks and artists, In these dark and difficult days the one thing that continues to offer me solace and strength is time spent in nature, in growing intimacy with Earth and her wisdom. We try to make time during our weekly Sabbath for […]
Earth Monastery Prayer Cycle ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dearest monks and artists, We are back after a monthlong break in our email newsletters. It is always good for us to have this sabbatical from our communications, to be able to turn inward a bit more and to give some time and energy to other projects. We are thrilled to be launching our newest […]
Day 7: Earth as the Original Liturgy
Prayer Cycle / Earth Monastery / Day 7 Video, Audio and Written Guides for Morning and Evening Prayer Morning Prayer Evening Prayer Make A Donation Buy Earth Monastery book Journey with the Companion Retreat Morning Prayer OPENING PRAYER We pray this morning, joining in with the great unfolding liturgy of praise already being sung all […]