Today was beautiful. At 35 degrees, I found it too warm for wool and happily embarked for work in my spring jacket. I left 30 minutes early to give myself time to enjoy the streets. There was so much to enjoy. Puddles. People looking each other in the eyeballs instead [...]
the badlands
I am writing this part of the story today. I think I can capture some of the wonder, but I doubt my pen will ever touch the fullness of the laughter.
Dear winter,
March is less than a week away, and though you are a time period, not a conscious being, I want to be sure to say thank you before I get caught up in my excitement for spring.
You were so beautiful this year with your piles of snow, cold wind, and icy trees. [...]
When it’s cold and raining,
you are more beautiful.
And the snow brings me
even closer to your lips.
The inner secret, that which was never born,
you are that freshness, and I am with you now.
I can’t explain the goings,
or the comings. You enter suddenly,
and I am nowhere again.
Inside the majesty.
-Rumi
I discovered something unexpected, today. I love Valentine’s Day. Really! I do. The holiday gets such bad a rep these days, like its some commercial thing we have to rise above rather than enjoy. But it’s a very old holiday, actually. And what’s so commercial about love and showing affection?
It was interesting to work [...]
waking up to blue
Blue is all around me these days. I wake up to the blue light of early winter mornings, sit by a blue wall, heat water in my blue kettle, make tea in my blue pot and drink it from my blue cup. I look into the blue eyes of my [...]
If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you probably know how much I love Ash Wednesday. The old stories say that on the sixth day God took the dust, formed it, and breathed it to life. We are dust and breath.
“Remember you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
I almost missed it [...]
Most everything is closed today
including the interstate.
I saw a man skiing down the street.
The middle of my road is a highway of people trudging through the cold.
It’s a day I’m glad I walk to work.
I’m never driving to work again.
The busses are all stuck.
It’s scary in some ways.
And exciting.
Want some cocoa?
Last night I got back from working at a teen retreat. It was a wonderful weekend filled to the brim with amazing people, but, I must say, I am happy to be home from it all. God was very present at that retreat, but I missed so many of the richest ways we relate to [...]