“Throughout my whole life,” he noted later, “during every minute of it, the world has been gradually lighting up and blazing before my eyes until it has come to surround me, entirely lit up from within.” Annie Dillard, For the Time Being Email this post
I’ve seen this image several times, all over the place, and finally I downloaded it because I love it. I love the font, I love the gray and white, and I love the message. Trust your struggle. These words honor that we all have struggles, and they contains within them trust that all the effort [...]
One evening last week Whit and I sat in companionable silence in the family room. He was building a LEGO and I was working. “Mummy?” At his voice I looked up from my laptop. “Yes?” He was perched on the side of the low train table, LEGO pieces in one hand and the other held [...]
I have written a lot about friendships, about those few fertile times in my life that I’ve made special ones, about how few true native speakers I’ve met, about the immense value I place on my female friends. I was with one of those native speakers this weekend, and I can’t fully articulate the joy, [...]
These are a few things I know to be true right now. Delight and despair are shadows thrown by different lights on the same large object. Or the same light against different hulking masses. I don’t know quite, but they are entirely related, twisted together, inextricable. A walk outside, in any weather, is the best [...]
Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars. Mostly he just pays attention to the things he sees: trees, fields, warblers, light. As he does, they become doors to other things: grief, love, amazement, blessing. This kind of blessing prayer is [...]
Sometimes I stagger under the weight of my own feelings. This season has turned so swiftly from one of relative calm to one of choppy seas and brand new changes, and I am still struggling to find my balance. On a daily basis, both my anxiety and my good fortune overwhelm me. How to take [...]
It is with my iphone, most of all, that I capture those tiny moments and details through which I glimpse the eternal. Here are some, from the 7th birthday edition. The view from the sink at our dear friends’ house in New Hampshire where we spent Martin Luther King weekend. I remember the weekend when [...]
Yesterday I wrote about the ways in which the universe, in all of its grandiose, extravagant meaning, is often best glimpsed in the tiniest details. And then, in one of those coincidences-that-aren’t, I read Amy Palko’s fabulous post about “all those tiny details that create an individual.” I love the way we can glimpse, in [...]
“The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.” – Gail Godwin I have known and loved this quote for a long time but I have never read anything by Godwin. That’s about to change as Evensong is next in my stack. [...]
