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Sunday’s Rose
Yesterday I was walking on the beach with Beth, and our now two dogs. There were four, but we buried first Pearl and then Lucy this year. It is also fall, suddenly it seems, the time of the year when things die, and we fill the shed with firewood for the one thing we...
Tenakee Time
“Ten times a day something happens to me like this- some strengthening throb of amazement- some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.” – Mary...
Fair Winds and Following Seas
"You wouldn't believe what once or twice I have seen. I'll just tell you this: only if there are angels in your head will you ever, possibly, see one." -- Mary Oliver from The World I Live In, a poem. Captain Mark, who skippered tankers out of Valdez was sent off like...
Bears & Balance
Yesterday I signed up on autopay for Medicare. Today, after my swim at the pool, I couldn’t get my socks on and gave up. I stuck bare feet into cold rubber boots.There is also a wet dog on the couch and I don't care. This is 65, so far. It is raining buckets, as a...
Look, See, Be
I have been taking time to save my mind and heart this summer. Every morning, really, every morning in June and July (so far) I have started the day with coffee, dog tending and some readings. The Daily Lectionary, Richard Rohr, poems from a few favorite Mary Oliver...
Why I Wake Early
“Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.”- Mary Oliver from her poem "Why I Wake Early." “Our fundamental connection to one another, the raft through the sorrow, the holding through the grief joy is, reminds us, again and again, that we belong not...
Good Morning, Good Day
“Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and let the one who believes in me drink.” – Jesus according to John 7:37-39 “The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds” – Thomas Merton “When I wake,...