A few weeks ago I was at a writing retreat in North Carolina and went for a walk among the beautiful leaves of a North Carolina autumn. While there, I felt a call to walk along the Pigeon River, which ran along a path near the big field of the camp. The path got smaller … Continue reading Excerpt from The Labyrinth
Spiritual Disciplines
Uninspired
I am so pleased to be writing to you this week. Really. Because for a while there it looked like it might never happen. I didn’t worry about it Monday. I had just written a post the Friday before. There was plenty of time to be inspired. Tuesday, I chaperoned a school trip. I spent … Continue reading Uninspired
Happy Earth Day
“I work at the intersection spirituality and ecology.” I must have said this a hundred time at our Savannah Earth Day Festival on Saturday, where I sponsored a booth and met many wonderful people who care about our environment. I don’t think many of them came to talk about spirituality or faith or religion or … Continue reading Happy Earth Day
Words vs. the WORD
So I’m working with a wonderful writing coach in a class on memoir trying to give myself accountability on writing regularly. It’s supposed to be accountability for writing every day, but let’s be real here; it’s almost every day if we count blogging and sermon writing. But the memoir project is coming along too, albeit … Continue reading Words vs. the WORD
Not Dead for Lent
So, some of you may have seen that I reworked my old website in order to combine my blog and website into the same place. I had been dreading it, but the looming deadline of having to pay for another year with my previous host finally pushed me over the edge. And you know what? … Continue reading Not Dead for Lent
To Know a Cow
I spent the weekend at January Adventure on St. Simons Island with Matthew Fox and Christena Cleveland. Both were speakers with great ideas and lots to consider, so I hope they have provided prompts for writing for many months to come. However today’s idea comes not from his speeches, but from Dr. Fox’s book, The … Continue reading To Know a Cow
New Year, New You?
I really enjoyed ushering in 2019 with great friends and musicals karaoke. We had more delicious food than we could eat in one night, so I haven’t had to cook two more nights in a row this week. As much as I love to cook, the break is very welcome. But today it is back … Continue reading New Year, New You?
High School Revisited
I spent the first few hours of my writing retreat on the beach reading my high school writing notebook. It has a couple of poems I didn’t write (think Thriller: circa 1983) and Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech that I had to memorize for a high school humanities class. I … Continue reading High School Revisited
Ruhepark
Twenty plus years ago I studied German in college. What I remember was enough to get my family and I safely through a wonderful family trip to Southwest Germany last month, but there were always words here and there to trip me up. One lovely afternoon we were walking around Titisee, a beautiful lakeside town … Continue reading Ruhepark
Spirit & Creativity
In my Creative Nonfiction class, our first assignment was to take some bland imagery and rewrite it to paint a picture or fix a camera lens on the subject. This was my first attempt: We were given: A beautiful view And I wrote: She threw open the slider and stepped onto the rough-hewn balcony, inhaling … Continue reading Spirit & Creativity
Openings: Let the Spirit in 