“We live inside love, there is no outside, only forgetting….”
Many years ago I went to an art sale where my dear friend Jan Gibson was selling her work. I knew her as a poet and as the leader of a rock band. I knew that she created art out of whatever she found and I knew I loved her and her work, but I had no idea how this one item would repeatedly come to me as a life lesson and blessing. Continue reading
Art by Corita Kent, quote from Daniel Berrigan
Praying with my feet, as the saying goes, I will be marching with thousands of others on Saturday at the March for Social Justice and Women in Atlanta, a march that will be taking place in cities all over the world. For me, preparation usually involves reflection as well as logistics and supplies. My reflections led me back to another march. Continue reading
In one of my favorite books, The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, a fox, urges a Little Prince to tame him: “…you see the grain fields down yonder? I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the color of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat.” The Little Prince has no idea what it means to tame someone, but the fox teaches him. Continue reading
Into the Mystery 