Reminder: The clock is ticking on the Lughnasadh Give-Away. Send my blog link to a friend. If he or she signs up and then clicks through to read the whole blog, you get an entry in the drawing for a set of six hand-made cards. Last week was manna moments – the lovely grace that …
Reminder: Speaking of ephemeral, the clock is ticking on the Lughnasadh Give-Away. Send the blog information to a friend. If he or she clicks through to read the whole blog, you get an entry in the drawing. Last week, in the midst of writing about forgiveness, I mentioned manna – that startling, miraculous stuff (the …
As Lughnasadh invites us to gather the bounty of the earth and preserve it for use at a later time, so it invites us to gather other bounty: spiritual, mental, emotional, physical, psychological. Gathering is not to be confused with hoarding. Saving for a rainy day is a fine choice – provided we use those …
…but fulfilled life is more than standing on holy ground. It is more than recognizing we are standing on holy ground. It is more than knowing that all ground is holy. At some point it is essential that we realize we are holy ground. We are holy ground. You and I, your neighbor, your partner, …
Over a decade ago, I attended a workshop led by Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker. It was 2002, and their book, Proverbs of Ashes, had just been released and they were speaking with us about the research they had done in the Mideast before starting to write. One story, one image, has remained …
My apologies for the broken link in my last blog mailing. There was an error in copying the URL. Six days ago, I set out from Denver by car to visit my daughter in St Paul. Our schedules have been such that we have not seen one another in person for several months and …
The early harvests are being gathered. The Farmer’s Markets are displaying a different level of abundance than they did over the summer months – although here in Colorado it has been a difficult summer for crops. Unseasonably cool temperatures extended well into June, there was a lot of unusual rain, and hailstorms have shredded leaves …
The feast that begins Lughnasadh (pronounced loo-NA-sah) is Lammas – the word is an elision of Loaf-Mass – when the first loaves of bread from the first harvest of the new grain are baked, blessed and eaten. Lammas is one of the four fire festivals of the ancient Irish year. It honors the self-sacrifice …
In early 1986, as I tried to make sense of the shattered remains of an almost 10-year marriage, my father said to me, “You know, my dear, not everything in life can be neatly wrapped with a well-tied bow. Sometimes it just gets put on the shelf in pieces.” I was 34. In the intervening …
…and speaking of trust, what do we do with disappointment? There was a stage in my life when I maintained two huge gardens: a flower garden outside the parsonage which was our home in western Massachusetts, and a vegetable garden a mile away in an area offered to residents of the town by a local …