The Blue Flower

“To have a sacred space is an absolute necessity for anybody today. You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t...

Desert Flowers (Keith Douglas, 1943) Living in a wide landscape are the flowers – Rosenberg I only repeat what you were saying – the...

“Only a week ago, we woke to find the surrounding fields pale with frost and the edge of every leaf picked out in white. Today is one of...

"Life has been busy, and in the general rush of things,... vital fragments of my identity have been squeezed out. I have missed them,...

“As I watched the seagulls, I thought, ‘That’s the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust.” ~Nikos...

*This is the third in a series on Slowing Down. “Knock, knock, knock. Must, must, must. Must go, must sleep, must wake, must get up –...

*This is the second in a series on Slowing Down. “People are born and married, and live and die, in the midst of an uproar so frantic...

“I sit on my favourite rock, looking over the brook, to take time away from busy-ness, time to be. I’ve long since stopped feeling guilty...

Reverence: Merriam Webster definition~ formal : honor or respect that is felt for or shown to (someone or something) Also… : honor or...

“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let...

”I shall there unfold and take out whatever it is I have made here; something hard. For something has grown in me here, through the...

"We are bathed in mystery…That will always be our destiny. The universe will always be much richer than our ability to understand it.”...

“Is there a moment quite as keen or memory as bright As light and fire and music sweet to warm the winter’s night?” ~ A Leaf from the...

“Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language and yet one that we are culturally cut off from...

“In short, all good things are wild and free.” ~Henry David Thoreau, “Walking” “That great cathedral space which was childhood.”...

“Whether it’s Mama’s house, Auntie’s front porch, Grandmama’s kitchen, or Sister’s cramped apartment, go back to the place where you are...

This is the third in a three-part series on Ritual and Tradition. This third entry is for anyone who shares traditions with children in...

This is the second of a three-part series on Ritual and Tradition. “Music is cosmos in chaos.” ~Leonard Bernstein, conductor, composer,...

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”...

“We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who...