The call is to wake up. Be here now. Be present. Not to be cliché, but we are in deep do-do as a country and as a human community, friends. The best thing we can do is love the small, the tiny, that which is indigenous to each moment, each place we inhabit....and let it … Continue reading The Code of the Universe is Written in Beauty

  A Blessing When the rhythm of the heart becomes hectic,Time takes on the strain until it breaks;Then all the unattended stress falls inOn the mind like an endless, increasing weight. The light in the mind becomes dim.Things you could take in your stride beforeNow become laborsome events of will. Weariness invades your spirit.Gravity begins … Continue reading For One who is Exhausted

Today something lovely arrived at my door. Thanks to the U.S. Postal Service carrier, who walks through rain, 100 degree temps and snow. Someone gifted me with a treasure. The work of their hands. Whimsy and Tea is a weaving business started by a sister soul tender who came to sit by the fire of … Continue reading Blessing the Daily Mundane

Recently my husband and I were talking about times in our lives when we were living on shoestrings and hope. Our futures were as wide as an ocean. We were ready to swim across it's turbulent waters. Things seemed simpler. Those times were unfettered by the weightiness of retirement decisions, saving enough, staving off the … Continue reading Living Providentially

Considered a Rhineland mystic, St. Hildegard is one of the 4 women doctors of the Catholic church—A German Benedictine abbess, artist, writer, composer, medicinal healer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath. She lived during the horrific Black plague, religious inquisitions and social diseases of the Medieval age, when life was short and poor (25 years average). Most … Continue reading Hildegard of Bingen