When I engage in spiritual direction, both as the seeker and as the director, I feel like we are putting a signal out for Mystery.  Mystery? Just as you are thinking about a creative approach to a job solution at… Continue reading

For over twenty years, I have maintained a friendship with a fellow teacher that I met at a conference early in my career. We live on opposite ends of the country. We have shared teaching philosophies and practices by the… Continue reading

We have an experience. This experience could be anything.   Maybe a strange dream from the night before that we cannot shake.  Maybe an unexpected turn in a relationship, our health, or the workplace. Maybe a feeling or a set of… Continue reading

In the summer of 2023, I engaged in a drawing journal. Each day, with clean art paper before me and a collection of colored pencils, I invited an image to come forth and speak to me. I would draw with… Continue reading

Like many, I’m trying to make sense of what is happening in our world. This poem came out of a series of experiences. I am tending the joy that belongs to all of us. That seems important to me right… Continue reading

As this blog goes live on Nov. 4, 2024, our nation is on the precipice of a presidential election (and all the down ballot offices) that has us all, if we are honest, in a most difficult place. I’ve lost… Continue reading

I have always been drawn to fire, and I realized this at a fairly young age. We lived in a rural area next door to my grandparents. One afternoon, my grandfather raked leaves into a pile and started a fire.… Continue reading

Making connections is essential to the spiritual life, as I see it. And, we are making connections every day, all the time, in many ways. Most of those connections happen subconsciously because they are being filtered by previous connections and… Continue reading

I sat with a Jewish man who said to me that he was not sure what value his life had. I asked him to tell me what his Judaism meant to him. And, he told me a story. I sat… Continue reading

List of important things to us at this time in the world: Resources. Politics. Inclusion. Religion. Education. Social justice. Poverty. Racism. Freedom. Cultures. Spirituality. Equity. Safety. Economics.  As we consider this list of things that are important to us, no… Continue reading