Sky Camp
Why so much busyness? The layers of rhythms, of the heart, the breath, the waves beating on the shore woven together are symphonic. Isn’t it good to let the days slow to a trickle and let the body surrender to its deepest longing?
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Category: Personal Journeys
When a Rose Is More Than a Rose
At 90, Don is still driving expertly around DC, nurturing other people with what he himself is
nurtured by: faith, music, poetry, flowers, stories, jokes, hugs … and let’s not forget shrimp
scampi. These are all forms of careful, kindly attention. They act like glue, bonding him with
practically everyone he encounters. Everybody seems to stick.
INVITING DEATH IN
Can embracing death give us gifts we won’t receive by denying it?
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Black Holes
When I held my son for the first time, the veil was especially thin, though I wasn’t ready for it. A moment that felt heavier than the sun. Studying his face, which was entirely new to me but somehow also entirely known, the light bent around us. We fell into some place, the two of us, squarely in this hole that I have been swimming in and out of ever since, the place where I stand as a binding thread between a boy and the grandfather he never met. As my son grows through ages and phases, I swim with the current of what could have been, wondering what they’d think of each other, what they’d say if they were to meet.
Read MoreThe 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.