Ritual. That’s a word, a practice, that I have despised and regarded as totally unnecessary throughout most of my life. Thankfully, I’m learning how wrong I was. Now I appreciate ritual. I sometimes long for it. Ritual can be elaborate…
Sometimes change – any change – feels like loss and brings us grief. Grief is part of the human experience. We all carry it at one time or another, over one loss or another, to one degree or another. The…
December 2022. The year is drawing to an end, making way for 2023. I often have chosen to ignore the change of one year to another, insisting that it’s really just another day. It’s a continuation of our life, not…
I’m feeling quite introspective, quite reflective, this week. A dear friend has passed away. Death is a common experience we all share. We will all leave these earthly bodies one day. We will be missed by our family and by…
I’m pleased to share with you my interview with Nyssa Couto on Bookish. I must say, I just can’t believe my mind went blank on the third famous pilgrimage site. It’s Santiago de Compostela, Rome, and of course, Jerusalem! Anyway,…
For some time I’ve been aware that we can clutter our minds, but it caught me off guard to realize that my soul can also be full of clutter. I was reading from Francis Weller’s The Wild Edge of Sorrow…