Listen to Your Life, the Holy, Hidden Heart of It
Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and the pain of …
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Burning Bushes Everywhere, The Art of Makoto Fujimura
“There are burning bushes everywhere, burning yet not consumed, and our lives can be just as miraculous. Our Making can …
Spinning Tales, It’s in our Bones
Story-telling is in our bones. It rises through us like sap through roots and leaves into the air. It began …
Still Open to the Beauty of the World
“Your cold mornings are filled with the heartache about the fact that although we are not at ease in this …
“Vast Emptiness, Vastly Full”
There are a few refrains that I turn to again and again when I want to get a clearer sense …
Toni Morrison: Diving Into Darkness on Wings of Light
Last in my series “Brushes With Blackness” on how Black lives and Black Culture colored my Whiteness. I’d always wanted …
From Pete the Cat: It’s All Good
One of the joys of grandparenting is revisiting stories I loves to read my own children and sharing them with …
Life’s Sweet Longing for Itself
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through …
Chaos Can Take a Hike
I wrote the following post For Love of Chaos in August three years ago, when I had my little three …
Art that Mirrors the Inner Essence
I found this photo on the cover of Sun Magazine some years ago and fell in love with it. It’s …
