Discovering A Mission I have been reluctant, some might even say phobic, about professing to a mission in my life and work. It scares me. I have commitment issues. I like change. I like flexibility. I like spontaneity. How do these things fit with a mission? Recently, one morning, I sat down and wrote: I […]
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A Cranky, Fierce and Tender Spring
Spring is here in North Carolina. The delirious lime green leaves aren’t quite here yet, but the fragile tender air is. It is soft portentious air that generally leaves me feeling cranky. I want to slip back into the chair in the corner. I want it to be cold and rainy so I can stay […]
Reckoning with the Essence
It always happens this time of year; a slowing down, a reluctance to go out, a desire to drink endless cups of ginger tea and a compulsion to lie down whenever possible. This is both a time of great inspiration and great stillness in me. Contemplating what the previous year has wrought and what the […]
The Rise and Fall of Choice
“Hostility begins to exist when we think we can choose by whom we shall be nourished. If the web of humanity is in any sense one, then we must choose to be nourished by those of whom we most wholly dislike or disapprove.” Charles Williams What do you do when you find yourself in a […]
Cooking with Chaos
Cooking with chaos, everyday from scratch. Summer mourning gone. Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of cooking. And that is not a typo, the mourning is gone. I am no longer lusting after the summer of lazy, idle sunlight and gratifying heat. No, I am relishing the chance to energize the movement of clarification, purification. What […]
Born in August
Let me just start out by saying I was not born in August. I was however, born again yesterday. Yesterday I finally fell into Summer. I walked slowly down the drive, which is really more like a country dirt road since it goes for a good quarter mile, tracking my perceptions. Time slowed down. Time […]
