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...
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...
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...
What Lens Do You Use for Viewing Your Spiritual Life?
This week I’m shifting the perspective a bit on my “cameras and the spiritual life” series. Moving away from a focus on photographic concepts, I’m looking toward the camera itself this week and next. I found myself remembering that classic saying about looking at the...
Connecting My Camera with the Spiritual Life: Focus
Photography has been an important thread running through much of my life—as you can easily see if you explore the daily postings on my Instagram account! I’ve been taking photos for as long as I can remember, in part because I grew up in a family where photos were a...
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