It is no secret that I truly enjoy being in a kitchen…the chemistry, the flavors, the creativity, the textures and colors….it is a place of the senses, of poetry and music and love and prayer. There have been several things I have wanted to master over the years. Most of the time, I am attracted…

Last Wednesday morning while I was reading and praying, I came to discover that it was the feast day of 17th century Mexican poet, scholar, and religious, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. I do not study to know more, but rather to be ignorant of less. I first posted this quotation on Facebook with…

No mater where I have lived, I have found places I enjoy being…specific places…buildings, coffee shops, churches… The initial attraction might be purpose, it might be architecture, location, light, other people who use it… Usually, they are nook and cranny places, places I enjoy exploring, coming to know, and that provide a variety of perspectives…

There are times I simply find myself standing still in a doorway, in a hallway, in a room…head tilted, mind on a wander, caught in the thought of elsewhere, another moment, a dream, an upcoming event or need, a person, a poem. When this happens, I might be listening; I might be thinking; Perhaps I…

I have been in a position of privilege this week. Well, honestly, it is the same position I am in every week…in a chair or on my feet in front of students, teaching. But these last days overflow within me…absolutely overflow…and invite me to repeat what I have brought to God and proclaimed to those…

Ash Wednesday, 2014 I am glory and it is to glory I shall return; to home, to you, unmistakable love. I live in that strength; I walk with that courage into the unknown precarious what lies ahead. Because it is you who draws me out and draws me onward, toward boldness of being and greatness…

In so many words, one of my students made mention of God-memory the other day and my imagination hasn’t been able to let it go. It came from her looking for a way to talk about doing the right thing and being aware of God in our lives…”You know…like the body has muscle memory, we’ve…

Let me simply say this…what I know of love, I know in my bones, my heart, my molecules, my being. And I know it because I have experienced it and I share it with others. I am loved and I love and amen and thank you. Valentines Day, 2014 This is about the touch-time, real-time,…

I mentioned to someone that today was the anniversary of my final vows in the Society and they asked “How many years?” Without even thinking I said, “Three and a lifetime.” I have had occasion of late to look back over pictures from the course of my life… I look at the younger me and…

“We must always look at things/from the point of view of eternity…/from which, I imagine, we would all/appear to have speed lines trailing behind us/as we rush along the road of the world.” –from Billy Collins’ poem ‘Velocity.’ School begins again tomorrow.  We have been on break for two and a half weeks, plus two…