Uncategorized – Our selves, our souls and bodies

walking by

In the early morning, when the stars are like jewels in the inky sky and my breath turns to tiny clouds in front of my face I walk. I look silly: headlamp on top of striped woolen hat orange-green-yellow leggings a black down jacket with a reflective safety vest on top. but it’s dark andContinue reading “walking by”

what level of crazy

What level of crazy is it when you judge the fortune of your upcoming day on your vitamins? There are three colors of gummies in the big plastic bottle on the bathroom counter: red, orange and yellow. Each day I dutifully shake out two gummies and give thanks to the pharmaceutical gods for finding aContinue reading “what level of crazy”

Alone, my soul in silence waits

Beartown to Boiling Springs April 2021 Spring has always been retreat time for me. Eastertide is a great time to cut away for a few days and to reflect as we bask in the new assurance of eternal life and watch the earth unfold into greenness after the grey winter. I usually go to aContinue reading “Alone, my soul in silence waits”

getting real

Here’s an essay more than a year in the making. This version of it could be titled: “Why I stopped wearing makeup during the Coronavirus.” It’s not what you think. It’s not laziness. It’s not part of the slick new move where you dress only from the waist up for Zoom meetings and keep your pajama bottomsContinue reading “getting real”

why I am going hiking again today

Yesterday, in the sequestration program adopted across the US, I stayed at home. I said my prayers, I wrote in my daybook, I made the bed, I hosted a “drop in” zoom conference for clergy. I read a chapter from Fleming Rutledge’s collection of sermons for Holy Week, The Undoing of Death. I ate aContinue reading “why I am going hiking again today”