To have just one life seems an awful waste of resources, and if our souls are eternal, wouldn’t that make heaven an awfully crowded space? No one thinks of the New York subway at rush hour traffic on the other side of the pearly gates.
My husband and I have diverse interests, but I don’t think [...]
This isn’t a question about who I am in relation to you or my family, nor is it a question for others to answer for me. Read the title aloud to yourself three times, pausing in between each reading, as if using it for lectio divina. What response arises within?
The Journey to Authenticity class I’ve [...]
Last week my Journey to Authenticity class assigned us the homework of planning a prime time television message to Americans. The budget’s unlimited, and we have an hour of time. What would we show? What would we say?
Honestly, I haven’t thought about it until this weekend, and we’re supposed to give it 15 minutes, at [...]
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see — or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.– Alice Walker, leading quote to the current Literary Mama edition
I pulled into our driveway yesterday, looking [...]
My husband shared a poem with me referenced in a Zen book he liked very much by Charlotte Joko Beck called Nothing Special: Living Zen. It’s a poem by WH Auden:
We would rather be ruined than changed
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions [...]
The night I spent in the Orlando airport I felt vulnerable and small yet unafraid — despite the every fifteen minute reminder that the US terrorist threat alert is a Code Orange. While I don’t want to die a fiery death any more than the next fellow, I also don’t want to live in the [...]
Synchronicity (per Merriam Webster): “the quality or fact of being synchronous,” which means “happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time.”
A quick search will unveil much information on Carl Jung’s coining of the term “synchronicity.” One of the first, not surprisingly, is a link to The Skeptic’s Dictionary. I think it’s healthy to question [...]
The streets are filled with crime, the prisons overcrowded, the drugs too available and the bombs too frequent. The wails and moans get closer, the burdens too heavy.
The laundry is more dirty than clean, the dishes crowd the counter and hide the sink. A mass of papers and unopened mail cover the desk. The kids [...]
In the era of internet, my husband and I have had this domain for years. Just now are we using it for something other than an e-mail address. But what does it mean? If it’s the title under which I’ll be submitting a blog, shouldn’t I have a clear idea? After [...]
