Women on the Threshold: Dana Reynolds (Part 2)
This is a guest post from Dana Reynolds, another of my fabulous co-creators and collaborators on the upcoming Women on the Threshold program (see Dana’s video post from earlier this week here). I had the pleasure of first meeting Dana several years ago when she attended a retreat I led in the Pacific Northwest on […]
Thresholds: “It is not too late”
You see, I want a lot. Perhaps I want everything: the darkness that comes with every infinite fall and the shivering blaze of every step up. . . You have not grown old, and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out its own secret. —Rainer Maria […]
Make friends with sunflowers
Hello beautiful monk friends, I have been relishing my summer sabbath time, savoring the sweetness of so many goodbyes. When I chose the word “savor” for this year (or more accurately, when it chose me) I had no idea that I would be spending several weeks without a home or car, saying goodbye to many […]
Invitation to Poetry: In Praise of Detours
Welcome to the Abbey’s Poetry Party #56! I select an image and suggest a theme/title and invite you to respond with your own poem. Scroll down and add it in the comments section below. Feel free to take your poem in any direction and then post the image and invitation on your blog (if you […]
“The way is made by walking”
Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the way is made by walking. —Antonio Machado The words above have been a kind of mantra for me in recent years. As my own spiritual path loosens its grip on plans and certainties and moves more deeply into unknowing and […]
Welcoming in Tenderness
Last fall I participated in a two-week yoga teacher training retreat through the Samarya Center, a wonderful non-profit yoga studio here in Seattle that is committed to making yoga accessible to everyone. In addition to their regular offering of classes to the general public, they also offer yoga to those in hospice, to veterans, to […]
Lectio Divina as a Life Practice
Lynda Chalmers is offering 40 days of contemplative practices at her blog and invited me to reflect on lectio divina: When I first was introduced to the practice of lectio divina many years ago I felt an opening inside of me, as if I was being met right where I was. I discovered in this […]