solace in the spaces where spirit is found

by | Dec 23, 2018 | Uncategorized

I had in mind sharing something different today. But the response from so many of you to my post “we can only hold so much” was so great, so compassionate, so heartfelt, that I wanted to acknowledge your tremendous big-heartedness. Thank you. So many of us are now at...

we can only hold so much

by | Dec 15, 2018 | Uncategorized

  I’d been on the verge of tears all day. I didn’t know why, for the day before I’d felt fine. But then, later, at the grocery store checkout, my bag of bulk lentils snagged on my shopping cart and exploded in a shower on the floor. I lost it....

back to the high meadows of new mexico . . . .

by | Apr 19, 2017 | Uncategorized

We had been camped on the far edge of the high south meadow. The evening before we were lead up a west slope trail, where, just beyond the ridge in the blaze of sun sinking quickly before us, we stood at a fence line, and watched color radiate from a point just beyond...

amulets of the trail

by | Jun 10, 2016 | Uncategorized

“SPLAT” pause “SPLAT” pause “SPLAT” pause “SPLAT” …was the sound as I emptied my PO box this afternoon, depositing most of its contents into the waste bin of recycled trees. Of the 4-inch stack of mail in my little locked cubbie-hole, the only thing worth saving...