Author & Sacred Life-Artisan
All is nearly in place for me to begin to write my next book. My cloistered scriptorium (a small writing space at home) has been tidied and organized. The majority of my 100 plus journals are neatly arranged on nearby bookshelves, awaiting harvesting. A cloth covered notebook stuffed with ideas, possible titles, photos, and other bits of inspiration is also… Read More
Here on the Western edge of the continent, near the sea, it’s impossible not be aware of the daily miracle of sunrise and sunset. Today’s sunset holds a special poignancy as it symbolizes the exhale of 2017. Tomorrow’s sunrise is the harbinger of the New Year, with all the joys, challenges, laughter, and tears yet to be lived. I have… Read More
Wisdom, the fashioner of all things taught me there is in her, a spirit that is intelligent, holy, unique, manifold, facile, mobile, clear, unpolluted, distinct, invulnerable, loving the good, keen, irresistible, beneficent, humane, steadfast, sure, free from anxiety, all powerful, overseeing all and penetrating through all spirits that are intelligent, pure, and all together facile. For Wisdom is more mobile… Read More
Perhaps you, too, have been feeling overwhelmed, heart-broken, and oppressed by the news these last months and especially the last the several weeks. Years ago when I was working very hard in therapy to heal issues from my childhood, my therapist told me… Deep sea divers can’t stay in the depths for extended periods of time. They have to surface… Read More
You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds except the one to which you belong. —David Whyte How do we ensure we are living in alignment with our souls’ longings when daily life is overscheduled, fragmented and often exhausting? What does it mean to let go of life-depleting tasks… Read More
I came upon this blog post today in my files and it seems very fitting for the here and now. I’ve freshened it a bit and offer it with love and prayers… A small globe on a bookshelf in my workspace catches my eye. I pick it up and feel connected with the realization that all of humankind is fastened… Read More
It’s Holy Week and I’ve been enjoying a quiet day of reflection…reading Joyce Rupp’s beautiful new book, Prayer Seeds and listening to the medieval music of Hildegard of Bingen. The afternoon weather is cloudy and my prayer space has recently become extremely simple, a singular small framed image of Christ and a singular red votive bless the table near my chair. Many… Read More
Life has a way of calling for the circumnaviation of pathways leading to departure and return. This Lenten season my husband and I have received the call to return to life near the sea. We recently revisited Carmel, California where we lived for sixteen years. During our life there, I wrote the first draft of Ink and Honey and sketched… Read More
The world turns and the hours of daylight increase. Spring approaches and Lent begins. Last weekend I was blessed to spend a retreat day with my dear friend, visionary, and artist, Karen Blessen. Twenty-three years ago Karen and I co-created the book, Be An Angel. Ours is a life-long “soul sister” friendship. Our conversations and Karen’s wisdom always inform and nourish… Read More
Our liturgical calendar offers openings throughout the year to pause, reflect upon and renew our spiritual lives. The opportunity to make an interior Lenten journey begins this year on Ash Wednesday, March 1st. Lent is a time for reflection and preparation for Easter as we contemplate Christ’s forty days of withdrawal and sacrifice in the desert prior to his crucifixion. Lent… Read More
