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The Inside the Darkness
Let us explore the inside of darkness, again encroaching like a thief upon our sun-time. Long completed is October’s riotous show. Leaves from scarlet maples, burgundy pear trees, buttery tulip trees...
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O!
In my perception, O! is a hiccup of Spirit; it collapses disparate images into fresh paradigms, evokes quickenings, and precipitates change. I still wonder over a memorable one that befell me four days...
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A Memorable Quote
Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. Sir Thomas Brown (1830 – 1897) British poet, scholar, and divine Filed under: Blogs Tagged: burning, change, flame, mystery, vitality
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Love
Love just is; golden in it simplicity. Author Unknown Filed under: Blogs Tagged: energy, mystery, sacred, simplicity, withinness
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The Mother
In a land far from ours, an older couple gave birth to their only daughter, comely in face with dark eyes and mirth. Her early development evidenced unusual gifts of spirit, of compassion, of...
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Oh!
Within hush of darkness reverberate light-tones of mirth. Within womb of darkness stretch hungry roots. Within cocoon of darkness weave night-dreams. Within spirals of darkness twist fragments of...
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Packing Away the Christmas Tree
Reds-greens-yellows-oranges-blues gladdened my fir tree, set up in my glass-enclosed porch to keep at bay winter’s pitchy assault where nothing lives. Happily, my neighbors also enlarged this show with...
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A Happening
Beeswax candles spilling over bronze holders shadow the sanctuary of this stone church set on a hill. Worshipers huddle in pews, fidgeting, still harassed by the chill of freezing rains lodged in their...
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A Chance Happening
“Where’s the special elevator?” asked a porter wearing navy scrubs and emerging from an ICU room. Behind him another porter leaned against the sheet-wrapped gurney with the remains of a patient....
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Antidote to Madness
It’s all around us, shriveling our spirits: the killing winds of the election frenzy, theprotracted bombing of Mosul, the sterile dispatching of unwanted babies, the wanton garroting of truth-seekers,...
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It Is New Year’s Eve
It is New Year’s Eve. Womb-like stillness exudes peace as I head outdoors. My flashlight plays in front of my steps, revealing shriveled leaves and twigs and gumballs on the sidewalk. Halogen...
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A Man of Spirit
Shuddering gripped our souls as the mixed a capella choir of multiple voices burst into “Priidite, poklonimysa” – (“Come, Let Us Worship),” the first of fifteen Russian hymns of the Vespers/All Night...
View ArticleLilacs
How often will an April freeze scorch a lilac shrub of its regal display? Or brown a full-blown magnolia tree, reducing it to widow’s weeds? Or blister-winds knife blossoms from apple trees and...
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Afternoon breezes massage the creamy tepals of the blossom, atop the southern magnolia tree in my backyard; its wonder incites my awe, humbles me before Creator God. This first flowering should not...
View ArticleUpstream by Mary Oliver
Questions about the timing of Mary Oliver’s last publication, Upstream, Selected Essays in 2016 caught my attention. She passed in 2018. In these nineteen essays, two of which are original to this slim...
View ArticleThe Unknown
On the other side of change lurks the unknown, at times fraught with crippling fears for most of us. I still shudder remembering the first wrench: leaving home for the semi-cloistered convent after...
View ArticleFour Seasons
A synchronicity of burgeoning occurs for those willing to look: Spring’s coloration and the pandemic’s menace. Both entail energy—one vibrates within jewel-tones of Beauty and the other shivers within...
View ArticleThe Timbre of Grief
“This is your captain speaking. We’ve had more contact with air traffic control in New York. All planes are to land at the nearest airport and wait for additional instruction—We’ll be coming down at...
View ArticleCPA Step Seven
Step Seven of Chronic Pain Anonymous – Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. In Recipe for Recovery I found the description for Humility, central to Step Seven and CPA recovery: “…we accept and...
View ArticleA Lamp
Your word is a lamp for my feet, so prayed the Psalmist who sought to know and follow God’s will, within the specificities of his time and place. This spiritual practice, for centuries internalized by...
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