Month: October 2014

darkeness and connection

It always amazes me that so much that happened in our scriptures, happened in the dark. God's brooding over the earth as creation unfolded, happened in the dark. Half of the desert wandering, happened in the dark. The Temple's Holy of Holies, existed in the dark. The annunciation of Mary,...

wandering brain

Later this week, an event will occur which has been planned by the Art of Hosting Meaningful Conversation Committee, chaired by Rae Denman and Tim Dunbar, for more than a year.  Working with The  Dean, the Chapter, the Vestry, three very gifted consultants and the more than 70 leaders on...

tea, roses and attitude

  Funny things happen when one is hit by a speeding train. Life shifts. New things take importance over old things and new ways of being in the world begin to emerge out of the mists of Czech Intensive Care Units and Neurosurgeon teams. One of the new things I...

a tolerance for impermanance

  an excerpt from a poem by Rilke... "Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final." When I read Rilke, my legs go weak and I need to reach out and hold onto a piece of furniture.  He seems to be one of...

peace, plums and fear

One of the many blessings which come from saying the daily office at the Cathedral with my colleagues at 8:30 and 5:00 every day is that we wade into, and are washed over, by the psalms.  Two thirds of them are deep laments and one third are praise psalms.  At...

clay

This vase is raw clay at this point.  It has just been thrown on the potter's wheel and has been matched with a chuck of raw agate which will be reunited with the lid once the clay has been dried, fired, glazed and re-fired to 2400 degrees. What makes the...