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2014-07-11T11:20:15-04:00

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Peter’s Sonnet

Last updated on: July 11, 2014 at 11:20 am By Peter Bishop

It is dangerous to express ethical or philosophical positions in poetry. People will react to the outward forms rather than to what is said. Great evil may be excused if it has artistic merit, and great good discounted if it seems trite or derivative. I think this is part of why the early Quakers were so stodgy, rejecting music and theater and always dressing in grey. I think it’s also why modern Friends still place such a high value on... Read more

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2014-07-11T11:20:49-04:00

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Peter on Silence and Intimacy

Last updated on: July 11, 2014 at 11:20 am By Peter Bishop

This past weekend, Mt. Toby Friends Meeting held a weekend-long retreat. About sixty Friends gathered at Woolman Hill, a Quaker retreat center that’s about half an hour to the north. Many of us stayed there Friday and Saturday nights; others commuted. The Friends attending included slightly more than half the regular attenders at our meeting. One of the queries that was asked early on in the gathering was, “What do you most long for in your faith family?” Some of... Read more

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2012-01-16T15:27:00-04:00

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Winter Light

Last updated on: January 16, 2012 at 3:27 pm By Cat Chapin-Bishop

I find myself almost incredulous at how deep a vein of contentment I can find in a single afternoon at home. I love my home: my house, my garden, my woods. I’ve understood for many years that buying stuff, things, doesn’t actually build much contentment once I’m not in need. I’ll think, when I contemplate buying a new whatzit, that once I have that whatzit I’ll be happy; I envision all the good and satisfying things I will be able... Read more

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2011-11-13T08:42:00-04:00

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The Empty Bucket

Last updated on: November 13, 2011 at 8:42 am By Cat Chapin-Bishop

Recent conversations with Pagans, in person and online, are bubbling up for me this morning, bringing with them troubling thoughts. Do we care more about our rituals than we do about our gods? It’s happened more than once, lately, that the response to some concern expressed among us has been a rather pat, “I wrote a really good ritual about that, once.” As though the authorship was the main thing; as though the performance of a ritual script was enough... Read more

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2011-11-02T16:51:00-04:00

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Gardens Are Just Weird

Last updated on: November 2, 2011 at 4:51 pm By Cat Chapin-Bishop

And amazing. This is tonight’s harvest. After several nights of frost, and 18″ of snow in a blizzard that left us without power for about 48 hours. Bok choi, carrots, Swiss chard, and mustard greens, gathered from the snow. Read more

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2011-10-22T16:17:00-04:00

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The Saturday Farm

Last updated on: October 22, 2011 at 4:17 pm By Cat Chapin-Bishop

I love Saturdays. I have come to think of the work that I do on Saturdays as “farming.” Now, I know it isn’t farming–not really. We have a medium-sized vegetable garden and two dogs, and that’s not a farm, by any stretch of the imagination. But I keep thinking of a comment Joel Salatin made in Yes Magazine once, about how Americans have become used to thinking of our homes as centers of consumption, but how once, thinking of your... Read more

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2011-09-26T21:29:00-04:00

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So Much

Last updated on: September 26, 2011 at 9:29 pm By Cat Chapin-Bishop

So much of the pain in our spiritual lives, it seems to me, comes down to this: It is bitterly hurtful to have our spiritual gifts rejected or ignored by the communities we belong to. And yet, the price of bringing those gifts to those communities is being able to accept their guidance on where we are falling short, in error, or mistaken in how we use those gifts. And that hurts, too–a desperate, sharp, shameful pain in the part... Read more

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2011-08-03T13:04:00-04:00

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The Great Outbreath of Summer

Last updated on: August 3, 2011 at 1:04 pm By Cat Chapin-Bishop

This past weekend, sitting out on my porch in the long twilight of a summer’s night, I noticed how, where a few weeks past, our lawn was spangled with fireflies, their lights have almost all gone dark. I noticed, too, all around me in the night were the songs of crickets. It was not so many weeks ago that there were no crickets to be heard, and now their songs of love and death fill the days and evenings both.... Read more

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2011-07-30T12:03:00-04:00

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New at No Unsacred Place: Disturbing Miracles

Last updated on: July 30, 2011 at 12:03 pm By Cat Chapin-Bishop

Some reflections on this summer’s experiments in organic gardening. Hint: it’s a jungle in there! var fctb_tool=null; function FCTB_Init_14558243d9238a4ebe014b99df050a51(t) { fctb_tool=t; start(fctb_tool); } FCTB_Init_14558243d9238a4ebe014b99df050a51(document[‘FCTB_Init_223cfbd0f57bc143ba3ba3bfb6a42766’]); delete document[‘FCTB_Init_223cfbd0f57bc143ba3ba3bfb6a42766’] var fctb_tool=null; function FCTB_Init_82ac77c79303954aa3c5cd62e5e66731(t) { fctb_tool=t; start(fctb_tool); } FCTB_Init_82ac77c79303954aa3c5cd62e5e66731(document[‘FCTB_Init_7551048c738439459031b530b64599f2’]); delete document[‘FCTB_Init_7551048c738439459031b530b64599f2’] Read more

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2011-07-11T13:56:00-04:00

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Pagan Values Month: Living in Relationship

Last updated on: July 11, 2011 at 1:56 pm By Cat Chapin-Bishop

The very fact that I am writing this entry for Pagan Values Month–June, in case you missed it–is a testimony to the importance of relationships in Paganism. Despite the fact that we are now eleven days into the month of July, I can’t bear to let Pax down. Not only is Pax a kind and generous-spirited Pagan writer, not only did he invite me to participate this year, but he has become a friend, although we have never (yet) met... Read more

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