Pondering How to Be a Good Relative
Last month, I attended our Episcopal Diocese’s annual convention and had the privilege of hearing the Rev. Isaiah Shaneequa Brokenleg give the keynote speech. She’s on the national church staff in the Office of Reconciliation, Justice and Creation Care. Her words...
Movement and Stillness in the Waning Year
A spiritual director colleague recently shared a Rumi poem on her Silentium post and one stanza really resonated for me: I seem restless, but I am deeply at ease.Branches tremble; the roots are still. My life is quite full at the moment (I’ll be sharing more specifics...
Rest as Resistance and the Nap Ministry
A couple of weeks ago a friend told me about the Nap Ministry. This idea was new to me, but it really struck a chord, and I wanted to share it with you today. Over the years, I often struggled to stay awake during workdays, especially after lunch. I became accustomed...
What’s Really Frightening Me This Halloween
This past week on Instagram I’ve been sharing images of what I’m calling nature’s Halloween. While people in my neighborhood are staging ghastly scenes in their front yards, I’m seeing both the stark beauty and the raw death and destruction that is revealed in nature...
An Invitation to Positive Mysticism
All mystics are positive people—or they are not mystics! Their spiritual warfare is precisely the work of recognizing and then handing over all of their inner negativity and fear to God.—Richard Rohr, Eager to Love I’ve written on this blog in the past about my...
The Cab Ride and Our Need for Silence
Once upon a time, my husband Henry drove a cab for a living. Even after we met and married, he continued to drive the 2 pm to 2 am shift on Saturdays because he loved the people he met and the experiences he had. He has told me a number of stories about that work, and...
Encountering Ennui and Agony at the Zoo
Henry and I took a day off last week to visit a zoo north of us and take photographs. I will not name the zoo because we were not impressed with it. The cages were small. Noise from the nearby freeway was incessant and periodically punctuated by fighter jets screaming...
Reclaiming Full Vision in a Challenging World
I had cataract surgery last Wednesday. Despite my relative youthfulness, this was my second cataract surgery (you can read some reflections about my first cataract here). This tendency to prematurely develop clouded vision may have a genetic component, as my younger...
Reflecting on Camera Care and Self-Care
This week I conclude my reflection series on camera concepts and the spiritual life. I’m closing with some ponderings on caring for my camera and tying it in with self-care and the spiritual life. For starters, no modern camera will work if we don’t recharge the...
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