And so it is that I find myself gearing up for another adventure. Goodbyes are being said, hugs given, and blessings bestowed. It all continues to fill me with a depth of gratitude beyond my capacity to contain. I am simply and humbly aware that those gifts of friendship, support, and love are part 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.
Hot Time, Summer in the City
It’s a Summertime Friday Five from Rev Gal Blog Pals! I love summer, and wait anxiously for it every year. So how is it that we have arrived at the hot and humid “Dog Days” of August, and I have not done nearly enough of what I planned to do? I want to pack in…
Free Agent
I have had reason of late to consider the idea of “free moral agency” as it pertains to several people close to me. Free moral agency…the right to make choices and decisions on one’s own, provided it is deemed that no harm is being done. Deemed or determined by whom and against what measure remain…
Trite, but True! I-Heart-NYC
Back in the Saddle with Friday 5 and RevGalBlogPals! It’s the I-Heart-NYC edition! Friday Five: Love the One You’re With This Friday Five will post while I’m at the beach which for me is more than a vacation destination, it is a trip home. I have found it quite easy to wax nostalgic about the…
A Bearable Lightness of Being
It is not often that one has a chance to pair the absence of coffee in the can with a curious sleepy ponder about whether there actually is just a little less gravity holding things in place. So it was this morning at 5:30 when I opened the cupboard and was reminded in one sad…
Feasting
In these last weeks, I have been to the library quite a bit. I have found new mystery authors to enjoy, yes, but the real thrill has been 641.5. Not six-hundred forty one and a half, 641.5. Cookery. I have been devouring cookbooks and food writing books. And not only reading, but putting into practice!…
Word-liness
From the journal 6:07 AM And so the morning begins in cool and breezy silence….at least for some moments. It is a passing but welcome peace that settles here in the living room where I am tucked into a couch corner with the front section of the paper and mug number one of caffeinated glory….
Ingredients or Durante el Después (During the After)
As I sit here and type this, I have chicken that I will eventually slice for dinner cooling on the top of the oven. There is something pleasing to me about the simplicity of the preparation and ultimate result of baked chicken. It is a complementary food that, done right, is flavorfully polite to other…
How Awesome is this Shrine!
In a recent blog entry about returning to Xavier since the completion of the major work undertaken over the last year and a half, I wrote of an overwhelming desire to “walk around wow-ing as respectfully as possible.” With each tracing of the cleaned and defined curlicues on the bench ends and each moment of…
Anticipating the Feast
In anticipation of this Friday’s Feast of the Sacred Heart… Feast of the Sacred Heart, 2010 O Sacred Heart of Jesus, to you I offer all. You find me, you call to me,you taunt me, challenge me, entice me.You reveal your mystery to my senses. O Sacred Heart of Jesus,to you I give my life,…
Consider the Lilies 