Advent’s Light
The hallways and doors to Advent are simultaneously bright and dark. There is a neon quality to the light of Advent's dark blue which seems to go with none of…
conspire
Buh-thump, buh-thump, buh-thump go the hearts around the table; each life passing a bowl, taking a spoonful, smiling, nursing a wound. The hearts are strung, however unlikely, together on…
simplicity in food preparation and mindfullness in its eating
(three tea bowls, reduction, cone 10, 2011, LaFond) Mindful Cooking First, consider what meal you are to cook. Do you have the time? Rushing will undermine the attentiveness (mindfulness) of…
Thanksgiving’s First Evensong
As we all prepare for Thanksgiving, I am bracing myself for a mild annual confusion which the holiday brings about in me. This dish of black goat-cheese risotto with…
life, medicated with dumplings
Chinese onion and pork dumplings This is a week of rest for me. I have some chores to do, but they will all be chores I enjoy: pottery, connecting with…
ego, spirituality and bacon
This funeral jar, from my current show at Edge Gallery (November 7-30) is one of my favorites. It's sleek, art deco lines and the architecture of the top-stone of quartz…
a meditation on tenderness
When I arrived home from Prague a few months ago, Kai greeted me after that trip the way he always does after a long trip which is the same way…
Hilda, saint
Psalm 33 : 20 Our soul waits for the LORD; * he is our help and our shield. If I had to choose one hero or heroine in all of…
guile
There is no guile upon his tongue; he does no evil to his friend; * he does not heap contempt upon his neighbor. Psalm 15.3 In the psalm for…
hot coals
Advent is soon to be upon us and for the upcoming Advent season, I have chosen doorways, windows, and hallways from Saint John's Cathedral and from Prague as my photo-start…