“Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.”– Henry David Thoreau Moth & Mother A moth is perched on the head of Mother Mary. Mother Mary is a four-inch tin icon that leans against the windowsill above our kitchen sink. Resting against the counter, I am pondering moths. A pseudo-Jungian idea pops into my mind that moths are merely the shadows torn from butterflies. The moth’s sooty streaks are the tell of their origins and the reason they clammer for the light. Annie Dillard once wrote about a moth and a flame being consummated into a union undividable (as I wrote that …
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Subtle Sacraments & The Quiet Mind
photo by contemplify “The day before [Roger Ebert] passed away, he wrote me a note: “This is all an elaborate hoax.” I asked him, “What’s a hoax?” And he was talking about this world, this place. He said it was all an illusion. I thought he was just confused. But he was not confused. He wasn’t visiting heaven, not the way we think of heaven. He described it as a vastness that you can’t even imagine. It was a place where the past, present, and future were happening all at once.― Chaz Ebert (Roger’s Wife) Subtle Sacraments Loved ones are …
Poetic Nature of Walking with Jonathon Stalls
“The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours …but it is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day.” – Henry David Thoreau Poetic Nature of Walking with Jonathon Stalls Jonathon Stalls spent 242 days walking across the United States in 2010 and has continued to walk alongside thousands of people for thousands of miles. He is an artist, social entrepreneur, advocate for social, economic and racial justice, LGBTQIA+, Creator of Intrinsic Paths, and Founder of Walk2Connect. Jonathon recently finished his studies at the Living …