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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 have been thinking about light. Of course I have. Even more than usual. MK Countryman sent me a fascinating interview from NPR with Arthur Zajonc, an academic who “bring[s] together physical and poetic understandings.” Zajonc is a physicist and also a committed meditator, and his practice of contemplation-enriched science really spoke to me (remember, [...]
I’ve mentioned my father before, the physicist-poet whose influence looms large over me (as does my mother’s). Well, in a single gesture this week, Dad reminded me yet again of the craggy peaks of his intellect; he read my post about light and responded with an email in which he shared a passage from Paradise [...]
I have been thinking, for days now, of how to describe our magical adventure, our family trip to Jerusalem, a week full of delights and overwhelm and memories none of the four of us will ever forget. We experienced things, individually and collectively, that moved us all deeply. This is the photograph I keep returning [...]
“Another person is like a geode lined with hidden glittering.” – Catherine Newman I believe this to be true. I believe this with all my might. I’ve been privileged enough to have gazed at this glittering, in awe, inside another person. What I’m contemplating, lately, is that if I believe this about others, I might [...]
