Monthly Archives: August 2015

If you’ve ever purchased a puzzle to put together perhaps during a holiday at a family gathering you know what a blessing and a curse it can be. You have to get one with enough pieces for everyone yet not … Continue reading →

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. Ursula K. LeGuin I overheard a parent talking about her son.  She was very frustrated. … Continue reading →

Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in everyone. Rumi I am taken, repeatedly, by how silently and powerfully the elements of my … Continue reading →

Recently we considered “tradition” as being both the handing on of wisdom and guidance as well as a potential for handing over the younger generations to limiting ideas. This is exactly what we are seeing unfold in the area of … Continue reading →

It is in the shelter of each other that people live. Irish Proverb  Proverbs offer us ideals toward which to live, and often imply the things that we struggle with toward that ideal.  So this proverb.  Ideally, in the best … Continue reading →

In the last interview before his death, Irish philosopher and poet, John O’Donohue and Krista Tippet explored the power of landscape, something that we have written here about often.  O’Donohue acknowledges that a beautiful landscape has the power to open … Continue reading →