I’ve been nervous lately. My psychic friends tell me it’s because of the eclipse. I’ve been holding a vision for the past year and it seems to be time to step forward and act on the vision. Gulp. Today I saw the movie, A Man Named Pearl. It’s the story of Pearl Fryar, a sharecropper’s [ Read more … ]
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St. Augustine’s wisdom
I asked the earth, I asked the sea and the deeps, among the living animals, the things that creep. I asked the winds that blow, I asked the heavens, the sun, the moon, the stars, and to all things that stand at the doors of my flesh…My question was the gaze I turned to them. [ Read more … ]
Paying Attention
It’s amazing how important our attention is. In some respects, all we have in this life is our attention. We are shaped and create our lives by what we pay attention to. My current favorite read is Eric Booth’s book, The Everyday Work of Art. Booth writes on page 61: “If our experience of being [ Read more … ]
A Sturdy, Nurturing Cauldron
Years ago, when I began teaching, I had a problem with structure. I wanted to have classes that were free and spontaneous, where everyone could express themselves. I experimented with having a class that was a “loose” as possible, but I quickly discovered that completely unstructured classes wouldn’t work. There’s something to be said for [ Read more … ]
What Prompted this Blog
I’ve always been interested in the idea of creating space. For years I had a note attached to my computer that read, “Create Space for Spirit to Speak.” If we don’t have the space for it, we can’t do anything new or creative because our life is already filled up. A simple example is writing–one [ Read more … ]