castles in the air

by | May 2, 2016 | Blog

“To move, to breathe, to fly to float, to gain all while you give.  To roam the roads of lands remote, to travel is to live.” Hans Christian Anderson Four years ago, while driving through the countryside northeast of my house in Ayzieu, I stopped to...

a backward glance

by | Apr 2, 2016 | Blog

“I would prefer to be able to say: ‘I am satiated. What is given to taste in this life, I have tasted.’  But I am like someone in a window who draws aside a curtain to look at a feast he does not comprehend.” Czeslaw Milosz While going through...

the golden rule

by | Mar 1, 2016 | Blog

This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and  entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrow, who violently sweep your house empty of its...

winter blues

by | Feb 1, 2016 | Blog

“If each day falls inside each night, there exists a well where clarity is imprisoned We need to sit on the rim of the well of darkness and fish for fallen light with patience.” Pablo Neruda January can be a month full of lessons about patience filled with...

practical magic

by | Jan 2, 2016 | Blog

Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies are not starving someplace, they are starving somewhere else. With flies in their nostrils. But we enjoy our lives because that’s what God wants. Otherwise the mornings before the summer dawn would not be made so...