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

Lying, thinking Last night How to find my soul a home Where water is not thirsty And bread loaf is not stone I came up with one thing And I don't believe I'm wrong That nobody, But nobody Can make it out here alone. Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here … Continue reading Nobody, but nobody…

  "We are witnessing [a world on fire]...the phoenix falling into the ashes and rising again. We are participants...intimately connected to this planet, and part of a cycle of evolution, a reshuffling of how we will engage with global life...it is a time of healing and inner transformation, awakening. Hopefully it brings out the very … Continue reading Restarting the World

  Recently, a friend of mine wrote some wise words. Reminding us that we are not the first, nor shall we be the last to experience pandemic disease, social unrest, violence, wars, calamities in our lifetimes. Sometimes it helps to put things in perspective. We have such a limited notion of time. We are quick … Continue reading Perspective

  A beautiful poem by Dzung Vo about suffering and places of refuge: i can’t breathe said George Floyd the knee of four hundred years of racism on his necki can’t breathe said the woman with fear in her eyes her lungs attacked by coronavirus as she was put onto the ventilator i can’t breathe … Continue reading Breathing together