After Robert Bly’s “The Third Body”
“Nace” What is it that we are creating together? We exchange a few words and a presence is born. We...
Bursts of Kindness and Compassion
~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Excerpt from St. Francis and the Sow, by Galway Kinnell The bud stands for all things, even for those...
Leave Childhood
Why doesn’t the soul fly when it hears the call? A fish on the beach always moves toward wave-sound A...
September 2022 Readings
I’m Raising Children – V. Kali Nurigan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZMmGY_y7n0 (The poem begins at 1:25) Strange Fruit – Abel Meeropol, aka Lewis...
I Live Now in a Sky-House
Everything that was broken has forgotten its brokenness. I live now in a sky-house, through every window the sun. Also...
Much to Be Learned from a Rainstorm
The urge to escape seems almost automatic, even with small things. A moment’s discomfort, and attention wants distraction, wants to...
Epiphany
When he was 43 years old, the great spiritual teacher Thomas Merton had a profound mystical experience. What follows is...
Nobodies and Somebodies: “Dishwashers and Other Forgotten Angels” by Albert Huffstickler
What does it mean to be nobody? One kind of ‘nobody’ identifies as someone who feels less than, unimportant. Another...
Eagle Poem
To pray you open your whole self To sky, to earth, to sun, to moon To one whole voice that...
August 2022 Readings
Quote from The Music Shop – Rachel Joyce “The way to heaven is not through the clouds. It's in the...
There is meaning, intrinsic meaning, in every moment.