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April 2014

April 18, 2014

Simple Prayer, Profound Meditation

please… please.. please...please. I whispered the words softly, quietly. As I stood in the bridal...

January 2014

January 31, 2014

What Bowling Taught Me About Patience

A couple of week's ago, on a cold Chicago afternoon, after being cooped up for...

January 03, 2014

On Building Bridges

“We build too many walls and not enough bridges.” Isaac Newton About five years ago,...

December 2013

December 20, 2013

Beauty of the Season? Really?

I did not plan to write this post. In fact, I had intended to write...

November 2013

November 01, 2013

The Language of Faith

Last Sunday, while out to lunch with my husband and two young kids, we passed...

June 2013

June 27, 2013

Arguing Over the Light

All religions, all this singing,  one song. Rumi  1. A poet I met once, Leslie...

May 2013

May 02, 2013

Softballing with Spinoza

If a triangle could speak, it would say . . . that God is eminently...

April 2013

April 11, 2013

Bodhidharma Proposes to the Wall

Bodhidharma sat there, they say, nine years, but you know how they talk. Bodhidharma there...

April 04, 2013

Serious Life

Life, you’ve noticed, is serious. In all seriousness, it kicks your butt, then, in all...

March 2013

March 19, 2013

Beauty Today

Tomorrow is the first day of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere. Here in Central Pennsylvania,...

March 14, 2013

Why I am a Unitarian Universalist

At college I found a small group of humanists who called themselves Unitarian Universalists. They...

March 07, 2013

Doubt, the Scurry

Thinking of it is your first mistake. A scurry caught in the corner of a...

March 05, 2013

Waiting for Snow in Carlisle

Today, I carpooled to a daylong meeting with several colleagues. As we rode back toward...

February 2013

February 28, 2013

Subtile Body

“There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom.” Frederich Nietzsche Hard...

February 26, 2013

Paying Attention Again

“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake. . . .Only that day dawns...

February 21, 2013

Seeds

The cattails I brought you have burst long ago & sent their fluff seeding wherever...

February 15, 2013

Hats & Maps

1. (in the thick) Once an argument could cut like a two-edged sword. But that’s...

December 2012

December 30, 2012

What a Day for a Daydream!

It turns out I’m not as good at daydreaming as I used to be. When...

September 2012

September 29, 2012

Be Here Later, or Be There Now?

I finally cleaned the back yard the other day, a task I had spent several...

September 04, 2012

Run for Your Life!

I have always been fairly athletic, and I enjoy playing a good game that gets...

September 02, 2012

Friends: The Spice of Life

If most of our life consists of basic repetitive tasks that are simple and predictable—some...

July 2012

July 05, 2012

On Being a Murphyist

I have spent the last seven years in the occasional study of a religious system...

June 2012

June 26, 2012

The New Face of Courage

Courage comes in many forms and it wears many faces. We often think of those...

June 07, 2012

A Personal Relationship with God

The aspect of my personal faith that seems to bring about the most confusion in...

May 2012

May 16, 2012

Changing Your Wiper Blades

Last week I bought new windshield wipers for my car and I was amazed at...