A Summer Kitchen The stillness of time alone in a summer kitchen,time given to the grace of preparing cool foods for sharing,soothes my being, my humid thinking,my heat thickened body that turns toward the herb-clean subtlety passing through on air that also holds birdsong in its breath… Basil and chickadee, blue jay and lemon thyme;the cedar waxwing…
Tag: Poetry
Homily—Trinity Sunday—June 4, 2023
Last week, I found out that this Sunday was going to be mine. I tried to remember…The Sunday after Pentecost…is that a special Sunday?? Anne Marie said—Oh, I think it’s Trinity Sunday. Oh good, I said. That’s easier…Which, oddly enough, I believed. Then, I started thinking… I remember my Physics class in high school—the math…
Sometimes the topic finds You…
One of my aims for the now sixteen years that I have kept this blog is to not force an entry. Don’t post for posting’s sake but only when it feels like something wants saying. Sometimes the impetus comes from within me and sometimes it is the universe who presents it. A short while ago,…
Classic and Rock And Love
While it’s not a revelation to say it, the acknowledgement seems practically unavoidable…There is much suffering in this world, at this moment. On the one hand, ’twas ever thus; and yet, and still…somehow it seems that I have a greater awareness of it right now–as though this truth is riding the hands of time rather…
Prayer, April 14, 2023: Infinitely More
Prayer, 14 April, 2023 Let my pace be set by the ground beneath me;let my faith be multiplied by the skies above;let my heart be softened by those I meet; andlet my soul dance at the breaking of day,expand at the breaking of bread,and find its ease and rest in love surrounding. (1) In this…
Why I Bring a Book to the Kitchen
Why I Bring a Book to the Kitchen The relaxation of travelby reading and sinkinginto elsewhere’s talewhile gently, unquestionably,bound to the holy of hereby the the hum of the refrigeratoris as much a sign of your loveas anything else, at the end of the day.Sometimes, that’s all it takes—the grounding reminders of presence,of the goodness…
Three-Fold Blessing
I was surprised by beauty today…such a generous gift, that is… I was in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, for Spiritual Direction and I saw anew a nest I’d noticed first in late January (pic). It’s about half again as big as it seems in the photo and an architectural wonder in and of itself. Today, though…just…
Zanahoria means Carrot
One might reasonably wonder about the origin story here… I was making dinner last night and helping someone with English at the same time. She asked what we were having… I replied “Something different! We’re having ‘picnic.’ ” Brats, cole slaw, potato chips, and as a nod to the falling snow, roasted carrots instead of…
Two Things I Learned this Weekend
Two Things I Learned This Weekend OneFire is good company,a being, breathing and chattering,warming the spirit and easing the fingersthat reach for snacks of different sizesto keep it satisfied.TwoWhen walking beneath a pine bough canopy,it is never too cold for the clean earth incenseof ginger-balsam-spice to rise as prayer;every footfall reminding youthat where you are…
Consider the Lilies 