The Halloweeen inside us
I am getting too old to inhibit my speech. It began in New Hampshire with truth-telling and continues now at shockingly accelerating rates. If we do not name Evil, it…
serenity
The etymological root of "serenity" is from a Latin root word which is best translated as clarity. To experience serenity is to have a clarity which makes a home for…
recollection
We have this life to live in state of molten creativity. Heidegger said that man is a shepherd of being. We are given many gifts and our work is…
fire
“What do you want me to do for you?” Fighting through the bush, aware, by their feet, of scorpions and snakes – aware at the sightline – the particular rustle…
What would Jesus think? Really.
This morning in the predawn the only lamp in the oratory was the one on the sideboard under an icon of Jesus. It is the simplest icon I own and…
yellow
Friends at the lunch table recently asked me why the bees were dive-bombing the honey at the Campaign Kick-off in September. We had laid out hot croissants with butter, chocolate,…
reflecting
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful. Margaret J. Wheatley The past weekend the cathedral community met to reflect. …
presentmomentness
My Dog “Kai” seems always to have a wonderful countenance combination of expectation and presentmomentness. I expect that “presentmomentness” is not a word, but I think it should be. And…
behold
“Behold!” The word appears over and over again in our scriptures. In the Greek and Hebrew it occurs more than 1,300 times. And yet in English translations the word is…
please help us
What I love about a garden is the diversity. My mother was British and from an old, if narrow family. She loved the English Garden and passed that form on…