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Archive for January, 2009

Litany~Billy Collins

You are the bread and the knife, The crystal goblet and the wine. Jacques Crickillon You are the bread and the knife, the crystal goblet and the wine. You are the dew on the morning grass, and the burning wheel of the sun. You are the white apron of the baker and the marsh birds [...]

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War and Peace

War… and Peace.

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“We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us.  The labyrinth is thoroughly known.  We have only to follow the thread of the hero path, and where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god…Where we had thought to travel outward, [...]

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Praise song for the day. Each day we go about our business, walking past each other, catching each others’ eyes or not, about to speak or speaking. All about us is noise. All about us is noise and bramble, thorn and din, each one of our ancestors on our tongues. Someone is stitching up a [...]

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Risk

And then the day came, when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to Blossom ~Anais Nin~

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A bit of advice given to a young Native American at the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, you will see a great chasm. Jump. It’s not as wide as you think. ~Reflections on the Art of Living~ A Joseph Campbell Companion

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Sunblock in Seattle

I thought my Seattle, Pacific Northwest and Vancouver readers might appreciate this…or not! :)

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I have often heard it said: take time to smell the roses.  Take time is an interesting phrase, isn’t it?  As if we could take it, steal it, lose it or the many other things we associate with “time”. And actually I digress because what I really want to talk about is not the roses [...]

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As we are about to inaugurate our next President, it feels like the dawning of a new era in America.  This is a time so full of hope and promise and optimism.  So as we step into the dawning of this new era, it seems fitting what Quado/Carrrie Hart, has written below. “The time for [...]

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If I would tell you two things to remember about this beautifully poetic song, it would be: we are never broken … that means you … you are never broken … and … in the end, only kindness matters If I could tell the world just one thing It would be that we’re all OK [...]

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