I’ve mentioned that things are a bit shaky chez moi lately, with unanticipated changes and tremors, a brand-new and somewhat startling shakiness to the ground. Last week I felt tentative and edged my way out into the world only when it was necessary. Other than one dinner out (a celebration with a few of our [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
I am reading Barbara Brown Taylor’s beautiful An Altar in the World right now and loving it. Several different and disparate people recommended it to me and they were all right. There are many passages that resonate – most of all the section called “reverence,” which is the best way I know how to describe [...]
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Only in the darkness can you see the stars. Martin Luther King had some good things to say about my current obsession, light. Last year I posted a few excerpts from MLK’s famous speech, which [...]
We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious – the people, events, and things of the day – to which we as sophisticated children have long since become oblivious. What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of [...]
I took this picture one afternoon last week, from my seat at the desk where I spend so much of my time. This second week of the new year feels like it’s all real now, like it’s time to sink into our regular lives again, whether they are defined by new words or not. I’m [...]
On September 1st I took Grace and Whit on a last summer adventure. We drove about an hour north to the beach. The day was magical. It started out with Grace noticing a rainbow in the cloudy sky – not the standard arc but literally a patch of rainbow among the clouds. I thought of [...]
