A short thought or poem for the weekend, friends ... A few lines from David Whyte's beautiful poem Sweet Darkness: You must learn one thing.The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worldsexcept the one to which you belong. Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweetconfinement of your alonenessto learn […]
A short thought or poem for the weekend, friends ... "A worldview of weighing and counting is utterly insufficient once you fall into the ocean of mercy." (Richard Rohr, The Universal Christ)
I read this short essay over and over and over again and seek to live it out every day. Finding New Questions We have ceased trying to tie up all loose ends. We have discovered that life does not need to be neat. We have more questions than answers, and this is a great delight […]
The young man in a hoodie, bundled up against the cold, waiting at the corner for the bus that picks him up before dawn for the long, winding ride across town to the school farthest from his home; a two-hour daily commute. The little girls huddled together for warmth on the playground as the autumn […]
I bought the aster plants one year not quite knowing what they were. They bloomed late in the season, bright purple and tall. A last-minute stunner. Every year they have grown more profuse, often making surprise appearances in other garden beds far from their original home outside our kitchen window. As summer loses its grip, […]
