Watching the fireworks from our home on July 4th this year was a surprisingly good metaphor for what feels like the current state of our country. The first Independence Day after we moved to Denver nine years ago, I was startled and delighted and amazed to see the whole sky (well, about 230 degrees of …
My last Musings was about relationship and community. May is coming to an end (already!?) and June is beginning; it’s “that time of year” and I am pondering a different kind of relationship, a different kind of community. Since my beloved husband and I are both ordained clergy, we have attended well more than a …
Our travels have brought us to Mesa Verde, one of the truly extraordinary landscapes of the United States. Indeed, it is more than a piece of North American geography and history; it is a World Heritage Site. Our guide explained the World Heritage designation comes not from Mesa Verde’s past, but from the fact that …
In the west, the issue of water runs just beneath the surface of our lives. Or, increasingly, is being drained away, insuring that much of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and northern Mexico will be a wasteland in two or three more generations. Already the Colorado River ends miles north of where it flowed only …
A journey is a trip from one place to another, to a specific other place. A pilgrimage is a journey from one place to another with the expectation that the travel itself will change the pilgrim in some way. An immram is a journey of trust. Not only does the person setting out know that …