Pondering What Winter Gives, Even in the Desert
Two weeks ago, a friend and writer colleague, Kelsea Habecker, began a winter writing/posting project on Instagram with the hashtag #whatwintergives. Living in the Sonoran Desert, I find that winter gives some rain and relatively cooler temperatures (sometimes even...
Celebrating and Supporting Young Souls
This past week we celebrated Halloween. The Christian church followed that with celebrations of All Saints and All Souls. It’s the time of year—at least in the northern hemisphere—when many plants are dying, or appearing to succumb to mortality, although in many...
Preparing for Holy Week: Jesus in the Garden
Today we embark upon Holy Week. Over the course of the week ahead, Christian churches around the world commemorate the final days of Jesus’ life, as well as his betrayal, arrest, trial, death, and resurrection. I mentioned last week that I led a retreat day entitled...
Pondering Tomatoes and Abundance
Back when I lived in New Mexico, I had large vegetable gardens and shared a lot of posts about the wisdom I learned while gardening. Tomatoes showed up in those posts because they are a prolific favorite, and because an abundance of tomatoes sometimes left me with...
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