After returning from Assisi… Canticle of Flying Loosen me Lord, and free my spirit!I want to fly!To know the wind as the bee knows the wind;to taste the salt water rain of tearsthat act as prisms do, reflecting the fullness of light.When the thunder comes moonless,when the fields are ready in a ripeness of green,let…
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.
So too, the heart
I get up at roughly the same time every morning. It is good for my body as well as my spirit- the constancy of it, but also what it allows. Establishing a routine can allow for noticing variations in the pattern that otherwise might have gone unnoticed. Scientists have approached curiosities in this way for…
Hills and Bridges
I am in Rome. ROME. I dreamed of many things as a child…dreams that seemed big to me at the time… but the idea that I would one day be walking the streets of Rome is beyond what even my intense imagination could have thought possible. Philosphies were born here, art was created here, science…
Stormy Friday
Friday Five: Storms of Life Edition I’m listening this morning for word of Hurricane Earl. Is he coming to visit, or will he bypass my part of Maine and move further Downeast, or veer toward Nova Scotia? Should I buy those bottles of water, just in case wind brings branches and power lines down? And…
Firefly Saints
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…
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!…
Consider the Lilies 