Yesterday I had a third grader bless me…and I am still left with the sensation of awe, respect, and humility that I experienced in that moment and in the hours that followed. After her class trip to the library, a student approached me, telling me that her grandmother had died and that the funeral is…
An Act of Creation a day…
“In the time that I have been sitting and looking at the screen or staring off into the seemingly greener grass distance, I could be making scones.” This is the salvific thought I had this afternoon. Words are no more at the ready than they were before and my thoughts are no more ordered, but…
Mystical Immediate
Late afternoon this past Tuesday, I returned from a month of helping out with an RSCJ project in Cuba. Over the course of three weeks, we put on 11 different day-camps at different sites for over 360 children. It was a phenomenal experience and I offer below some reflections from my journal…. 14 July, 2013….
An Adventure
It isn’t as though I don’t know that an adventure is coming. I have been making piles for a while now and going over lists. I have purchased what new is needed and found what has been tucked away since the last time. I have washed, folded, selected, bagged, and packed. I have copied documents,…
Kindred Company
Of late I have been reading Paul Elie’s book, The Life You Save may be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage. Hmm…reading it…no, that is not entirely accurate. Savoring it. Sipping it slowly. Feeling it bloom within me, warming me, teasing my senses with hints of something familiar and yet a distinct combination of flavors all…
Here and There: Cartography.
I recently began reading a book about maps and the influence of cartography on society throughout history. It sounds weighty, but honestly, it is a fascinating and humorously engaging read. One of the things it has made me think about is the fact that far from the fixed and firm directional tools many maps are…
A Continuation of a series…
Oh Mary (a continuation of a series…) Oh Mary could you come and cool my eyes… could you calm my mind with your ripple water lullaby… could you settle my spirit with a story of would you believeā¦ could you show my soul how to swing with an if you pleaseā¦ Oh Mary could you…
Feast of the Sacred Heart 2013
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/spices Even though I have read the readings that will be proclaimed at today’s liturgy, I confess that my thoughts wander from them when I think about the Sacred Heart this year. Time and again, my mind, my senses, return to a path that is scented and stimulating, piquant and curious, colorful, subtle, and mysterious….
Shape shifting with flavor
The other day I was waxing on about a flavor combination that was new to me…jicama, a mildly sweet tuber that is crunchy and wet, potato-meets-an-apple textured, served with a squeeze of lime juice, and a sprinkle of paprika. A friend asked, What does the paprika do for it? Before responding, my mind replayed the…
A trinitarian confluence
I remember learning the meaning of the word confluence as a young child…my summer vacations growing up meant visting both sets of grandparents and some great grand parents in far eastern Ohio, close to the Ohio river. This was the land of KDKA on the radio, Mail Pouch tobacco signs painted on the sides of…
Consider the Lilies 