Mary Oliver for Corona Times (after Wild Geese) Mary Oliver for Corona Times (after Wild Geese) by Adrie Kusserow, Associate Professor of Anthropology at St. Michael's College, Vermont.  You do not have to become totally zen, You do not have to use this isolation to make your marriage better, your body slimmer, your children more … Continue reading On the verge of Holy Week

These days, alongside the cultural twilight zone we are living in,  I am finding "thin places" on my early morning walks in the neighborhood. Surprising spaces where the Divine punches through my reverie and brings me to my knees in gratitude. On this day it was sister coyote. 7:30am. I was deep in my own … Continue reading Coyote Visitation

From one of our true Elders, Wendell Berry. Words I needed to hear today.   It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that … Continue reading Our Real Work

Sabbath Time, as Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel states is "architecture in time".  "The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments". (The Sabbath, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux (NY: NY, 1951) 6. Sabbath time liberates us from the oppression of spending the lion's share of our … Continue reading COVID-19, Sabbath Time

THIS IS A SABBATH SOUL TENDING SEASON...there are opportunities such as the fantastic collaboration between clay and poetry featured on this blog. Come. April 30-May 2. Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. Pandemic What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath— the most sacred of times? Cease from travel. Cease from buying and … Continue reading PANDEMIC…soul tending days