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Tag Archives: Faith
Epilogue: Retreat from Retreat
Our days at the Hermitage drew to an end. We packed our suitcases and returned them to the vehicle for the drive back to my mother’s home. We attended the Vigil and Lauds services, ate breakfast, cleaned up the Sophia … Continue reading
Poem: Solitude, In Black, White, and Grey
What motivates someone to seek a silent retreat?To travel to a remote mountain hermitage?To be alone among other retreatants who stay alone? Is it a means of escaping the 24-hour cyclesOf news and social media, which interrupts With cell-phones buzzing while … Continue reading
Poem: Say Their Names
Billie Holiday confronted her audiencesWhen she sang of “Strange Fruit” to illustrateThe dominant culture’s assault on black bodies.She did not name the fruit of black men lynchedFor offending white authorities withPerceived crimes primarily of being black. Today we say their … Continue reading
Poem: Wildfire
At Pentecost flames leapt from Jesus’ followersWho shared the Messiah’s messageIn ways that diverse peoples could understand.The Gospel has one and many forms. Fire ignites, illuminates, consumes.Fire must have the right conditions to occur.Fire burns, then moves on.What is left … Continue reading
Poem: Ordinary Time
Ordinary, normal, routine, Measured out in days, weeks, months, seasons,Sleep-wake-rest-activity cycles,Breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert,Coffee, tea, soda, wine,Self-care, chores, leisure. But are these times ordinary?Or, is the ordinary the structure uponWhich we then navigateWhat is not ordinary? We go about our routinesUntil … Continue reading
Poem: Silence,… Please
I recall a 5th grade class assignmentIn which we each were instructedTo write a motto to guide the classroom. I wrote, “Be Quiet”, which the teacher Selected first, admonishing usNo to be quiet, but to talk, share our ideas, learn. I … Continue reading
Poem: Creation
Of all the land, and sea, and skyOf all that lives upon thoseShores, in the air, and below the tide,How do we attend to you? Of all our senses do weSee, hear, touch, taste andBreath in the aroma of creationThat … Continue reading
Poem: Morning Vigil
We awake to a waning gibbous, One of the phases fromFull to crescent to new. It’s light shinesThrough the lace curtainOf clouds, which soon Will turn maroonAnd gold and blueIn our dawn vigil. (At the New Camodoli Hermitage, the Vigil service … Continue reading
Farm Life: Too Busy with Retiring
My regular readers will have noticed that they have not had posts to read, regularly, recently. Retirement presents too many opportunities for activity. I have been busy living, rather than writing about living. Rather than give excuses, I’ll just mention … Continue reading
From the Bookshelf: The Hermits of Big Sur, by Paula Huston
Here in the States (USA), we like to observe milestones: 50, 100, 150, 200 year on. The recorded history of European settlement is a relatively short period compared to the development of cultures in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, … Continue reading
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