a blessing
May you awaken to the mystery of being here and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence. May you have joy and peace in the temple of your senses.…
night watch
There have been emails recently from the 800 people who sign up for receipt this blog or those who read it occasionally and on Facebook or on the syndicated version…
lament
There are times in our lives when things seem very much to have fallen apart. A betrayal, a broken marriage, the death of someone we love, a dissolution of an…
desktops
Have you ever engaged in a great, huge project on your dining room table, or your office desk, or the kitchen counter and found that you have left a bit…
on being
I often wonder why find Jesus' abdomen so beautiful. Perhaps it is because a tight, young abdomen is generally beautiful. Sensual. But also, perhaps it is something else. Jesus' abdomen…
hearth and heart
Last week, on Thursday, as the sun began to stretch long shadows in yellow light across the city of Denver, I was busy driving through maddening traffic to the city’s…
Ohi Chozaemon IX (1901-1986) Japan, 1955, Earthenware Tea Bowl
Denver Museum of Art
Simple Bowls
Mindful Cooking First, consider what meal you are to cook. Do you have the time? Rushing will undermine the attentiveness (mindfulness) of the process of cooking. This is holy work…
Bright, Sparkling, Wise, Beautiful ,Crones – three
The Holy Spirit is a part of the Trinity - One God in three expressions. We know that. It’s basic theology to our church. But I am not sure we…
Pride and Anger
Sirach 10:18 “Pride was not created for human beings, or violent anger for those born to women.” One of my favorite episodes of comedy is one of the Sinefeld episodes. …
Is that so?
“When the soul is solidly rooted in... peacefulness, when it is freed of the bonds of every carnal urge, when the unshaking thrust of the heart is toward the one…