It always comes back to this, as Mary Oliver wrote. Nature, the power of its voice. It was the grass that caught my eye, as does a twinkle of light in the dark. In the state park, just past the … [Read more...]
At the risk of repeating myself…
In poetry and prose, as in preaching, I have insisted that if the sacred is present in our midst, then it has to be as perceptible in the forest of concrete and the smudged ordinary of urban life as … [Read more...]
Have You Ever?
This post began as a sermon before becoming a "Denim Spirit" column in The Finger Lakes Times (NY) Inspired by the Mary Oliver poem, “Whispers” Have you ever sat by yourself on the beach at the … [Read more...]
Wanted: Leadership That Inspires
This post first appeared in the "Denim Spirit" series in The Finger Lakes Times … [Read more...]
Listening to Time
This first appeared as a weekly column in The Finger Lakes Times: http://www.fltimes.com/opinion/denim-spirit-tuning-in-listening-to-time/article_1405159a-0404-11e7-b6ca-77e1b60d4498.html Can you feel … [Read more...]
A Wednesday Rant: A whisper of what we have forgotten
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/audioitem/70 “I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like … [Read more...]
Gratitude: It’s not magic but it is medicinal
Have you ever been without gratitude? It is not a pleasant thought or memory, to be sure, but if you have known such a time, conjure it back and remember what that was like. Perhaps it was a … [Read more...]