A River is as Wide as a Responsibility
The push-thrust of oars
is steady breath.
Author: Martin Willitts, Jr.
Messages Left Behind
A sleeping village knows
loneliness exists. Its song returns
to the stars as one door opens.
The Strange Connection Between Quakerism and Druidism
I spent summers on my grandparents’ farm from the time I was five years old and slaughtered my first chicken. I was curious about everything. Grandmother was Amish and grandfather was Mennonite, and both took silence seriously. My grandfather seldom talked and demonstrated how to do things instead of explaining things. My grandmother would insist I help in the fields and farm. I wasn’t going to be able to ask either of them anything. I had to learn by on my own by reading books written for adults. I also had to listen into the silence in order to try to hear “that of God.”
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The Visitor
Listen, suggests the Unknowable, that voice
within the one I’ve been waiting to hear.
The Braided Way
The Braided Way is a framework to see every faith tradition as a strand, braided into a larger whole of spiritual awareness. In the Braided Way, combining spiritual practice from various faiths allow us to explore sacred experience and wonder in forms that resonate with our personal spiritual needs and sacred intuitions. In today’s culture, many people shun religious dogma, but yearn for spiritual connection. The Braided Way allows the ceremonies and practices of multiple faiths to be available without the confinements of cultural dogma.