So my suggestion for today’s Friday Five is to write about 5 words you really like. Please explain why you have chosen each word, in such ways as: It is a * description or attribute of yourself * activity you enjoy * word that is spelled or pronounced in an interesting way * passion of…
Author: Kimberly M. King
I am a Religious of the Sacred Heart (RSCJ) living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. I am the director of Barat Spirituality Centre, www.baratspirituality.org, a writer, a juggler, a quick wit, a walker. I enjoy reading all sorts of fiction and non-fiction and regularly write both essays and poetry. Other interests and abilities include Spanish/English written translation and simultaneous interpretation, cooking, and time spent thinking and observing.
My r-pad
I was in a coffee shop, pleasantly tucked into an end table, reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s book, La aventura de Miguel Littín clandestino en Chile, sipping a dark roast perfectly milked, and going back and forth between recording new vocabulary and wandering in my mind to my own time in that most interesting country. Ironically,…
Good Friday Reflection for the Church of Saint Francis Xavier
“I now know what you have to experience before you die: let me tell you. What you have to experience before you die is a driving rain transformed into light.” –Renee, concierge, main character; The Elegance of the Hedgehog Several years ago, when teaching Morality and Ethics to twelve year olds, one student asked me…
Collection Agent
For several hours today, there was the perfection of all that is most Spring. It was glorious. In the freedom of response that such beauty can inspire, I went on a wander in one of my favorite outdoor places– The Farmers Market at Union Square. And, I went with an agenda…an indulgent agenda that brings…
Transfiguration
Perhaps it is my recent experience with a 30 day retreat. Perhaps it is being on the cusp of a new adventure in people and place. Perhaps it is simply that though it is Lent and not August, the second Sunday’s cycle A Gospel reading has Peter, James, and John taking a hike up Tabor…
Another Friday Five from RevGals!
Whether we liked it or not, we all “sprang forward” with the change to daylight savings time in the USA this past Sunday. There is lightness and brightness slipping in as spring approaches, so let us consider what is springing forth in our lives right now. Name 5 things that are springing forth… 1. The…
Lent, 2011…or, Placards, the Paper, and Morning Ritual
I was running an errand after daily Mass at my parish and passed New York Foundling—founded by the Sisters of Charity in 1869 as a home for children, its “extensive network of community based services provides havens for children whose safety is at risk, loving foster and group facilities to protect children and support for…
Praying the Readings
Things encountered today… Brie on a bridge. I was crossing the Mazzini bridge near the house and saw a paper plate, a napkin, and a wrapped wedge of brie. It struck me as both intriguing and somewhat sad at the same time. A man with a hacksaw cutting the lock from a bicycle. I hoped…
Deep Down Center
Deep Down Center Deep down center within my home,within your love, within you,is a stirring wound.A wound that reminds methat I live with the grace of fragilitywhich is the giving of self to you…A humble ache of emptyingthat draws tears when probedand loosens my soul to offerspace to the much and the many.In that movement…
The Large, the Little, and All
The Large, the Little, and All You have given me the large, the little, and all. My body with curves and quirks and breath to fill it,and a mind, a heart, and the complement of senses;the plot and the characters of my life,the turns of the journey that leads me freeand leads me always, and…
Consider the Lilies 