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Remember to Remember
From 6:30 to 7:00 am I joined a meditation on-line with Richard Rohr’s Center for Contemplation. It began with a Mary Oliver prose poem that I had not read, Of the Empire. She wrote it in 2008 in response to the question, how will future generations remember us? It...
Sunday’s Thought
On snow from Frederick Buechner: "It is snow to be shoveled; to make driving even worse than usual, snow to be joked about and cursed at, unless the child in you is entirely dead, it is snow too that can make the heart beat faster...it is snow that can awaken memories...
A Little Love and Light
Last night (well, afternoon in most places) at four the "bookies" as we call our book club, met at my house as snow was gently falling to discuss Ann Patchett's The Dutch House, which everyone loved (almost, one of us was not as sure) but then she started speaking...
Sunday’s Thought
“If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.” ― Madeleine L'Engle
Gratitude
It has been raining so hard and long that Noah would have had most of the Ark finished by now -- but luckily we won't need it (or at least not now) the rain finally turned to snow and the sun came out (and the stars) and it's 22 degrees and the north wind feels good....
Cleanliness and Saintlyness (Is that even a word?)
I have been on a kind of purification jag since the end of my term on the assembly and the completion of the book. Three full weeks of housecleaning, painting, and organizing (the entire downstairs is all fresh white now) -- books have been emptied from the shelves,...
Sunday’s Thought
“Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its...