Aug 19, 2021 | Reflections
Image: Barbara Ryther Memento Mori Memento Mori is latin for “reminder of death.”As a student in school, that was just a quaint academic exercise:Dancing skeletons on medieval etchings,Melting clocks in Dali paintings. Flies on bowls of fruit.All to show mortality....
Aug 4, 2021 | Reflections
Image: Kathryn Yingst Let’s sit down, you and I, and talk. Here, under the wheeling gulls Overlooking the sea, teeming with life Beneath the expansive summer sky Trivia doesn’t matter. Let’s go deeper. What has changed in us over this months? What have we...
Jul 22, 2021 | Reflections
The Painting Rememberwhen the hours of summerran together like colors—endless blue, grass green, dandelion—and feelingthe breath of every wildand beautiful thingbrush against our skin,a visible and invisible gold? Do you rememberbeing sweetly devouredby mystery? The...
Jul 8, 2021 | Reflections
Image: Nina Bisognani Millions of years ago God gave us colorful, scented flowers. Bees, the vegetarian descendants of predatory wasps, appeared shortly afterward. Up to 85% of food crops for humans and numerous crops that feed cattle and other animals depend on...
Jun 25, 2021 | Reflections
Image: Melanie Kyer “Fairy Houses, Mackworth Island, ME” Fairy Houses Have you ever built a fairy house?Collecting shells, bark, leaves, pine cones.Nothing fancy, just what is to hand.Do not compare your offering with others,Just use what you have–As...
Jun 10, 2021 | Reflections
Blessed by the Messiah Memorial Day is far more than the celebration of the coming of summer, but also one filled with sadness for families who have lost sons or daughters in war. As I have gotten older, I have become much more aware of that sadness. I felt especially...