Mary Oliver, thank you. The simple elegance of your poems exquisitely mirrors what is miraculous in nature – that out of seemingly simple elements placed in fortunate proximity and serendipitous … [Read more...]
When I Am Dead and Gone
Did you ever ask yourself: When you are dead and gone what will they say about you? Surely at a funeral, or reading someone’s obituary? Maybe you played that group ice-breaker game in which you’re … [Read more...]
Ah, the Seasons!
If it were mid-summer, a cloudless blue sky with the lake sparkling diamonds of morning light, and the only thing a body wanted to do was sit still and not move, it could be a warning sign of … [Read more...]
A Sunday Sermon, Shrunk and Secularized for the General Public
There is a message wrapped in the Christmas story that doesn’t get opened on Christmas Eve, and for good reason. It is counter-cultural. We can save it for other times of the year. But it is a message … [Read more...]
One Herd
Recently I was told about an incident in which someone was denigrating a group in which I am a member. Apparently, the person engaging in this behavior was espousing false information about my group … [Read more...]
A Limit to Free Speech?
“Platform” is a word the tech industry likes to use. Facebook provides a digital connection platform. Uber offers a transportation platform. Twitter is a “real-time, open information … [Read more...]
Mulching Days
Thanksgiving in Philadelphia is not exactly the New England poem’s image of “to grandmother’s house we go.” But from Boston, Detroit, Columbus, and Geneva we did go, traveling to gather around the … [Read more...]
Happy Thanksgiving – A Saucy Reduction
This is a "sermon reduction" - you know, like cooking down a sauce into something even more savory? This was a twelve minute sermon preached last Sunday, now reduced to 500 words for the newspaper. It … [Read more...]
Spiritual Symmetry
There is a phobia or syndrome whose name I’ve forgotten, in which anxiety is centered in the dread of a human structure collapsing. When looking at a bridge for example, or a tall building, the … [Read more...]
Time In-Between
Well here we are, Nature’s in-between, as when the clothes are picked up off the floor but the bed still isn’t made. It snowed last night but more than a few trees are clutching their pale yellow … [Read more...]
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