Mar 9, 2023 | Reflections
Image: Melanie Kyer Lean in Like a dog lies down against your leg With a comfortable thump In trust and belonging: Lean in. Like a baby falls asleep, Heavy on your shoulder, In surrender and security: Lean in. Like a caregiver bends close, To catch barely whispered...
Feb 16, 2023 | Reflections, Updates
Image: Nina Bisognani On Wintering For years I looked forward to winter and didn’t realize why some others dreaded it so. I remember going outside for hours on a cold winter day during my preschool years wearing a winter jacket, hand knit woolen mittens and hat and a...
Feb 16, 2023 | Reflections
For the Birds A wild Maine blueberry bush has grown alongside my back porch. It is easily 5 feet high and looks like a bush whose berries would be large and fat, not small and juicy. Often people don’t believe me when I tell them it’s a Maine blueberry bush because it...
Jan 26, 2023 | Reflections
Image: Barbara Ryther Season of Light For a photographer, every season – every month, every moment – is a season of light. One of the earliest lessons I got with my first SLR camera was “Don’t starve your film of light!” I pictured the nicely ordered clumps of...
Jan 5, 2023 | Reflections, Updates
Image: Melanie Kyer A Dialog with Epiphany Arise, shine, for your light has come! But I’m tired and really need to sleep some more. The shepherds are following the light to the Christ Child. But I’ve really got to watch these sheep, I’ll come along...
Dec 22, 2022 | Reflections
Image: Barbara Ryther Hope, Faith, Joy, Peace Four small candles The first flame is hopeIt flickers outBut is quickly relit Faith comes to life uncertainly on its tiny wickYet the darkness retreats Joy shares its glowAnd unexpected strengthWith the other two Peace...