Refuse to fall down
Photo: Long Island Sound, August 2017 Refuse to fall down.If you cannot refuse to fall down,refuse to stay down.If you cannot refuse to stay down,lift your heart toward heaven,and like… Read More ›
Author: Josie
In Praise of Day
"And God said,'Let there be light,' and there was light."Genesis 1:3 Dawn on my farmMarch 25, 2020Effort, PA "It is necessary for me to see the first point of light… Read More ›
Mother’s Day and the Prayer of Recollection
2011 Glen Rock, NJ. With my mother's statue "Spring." It is Mother’s Day, in a time of pandemic. In northeastern Pennsylvania, the temperatures dropped below freezing yesterday. It snowed, and… Read More ›
Bach & The Beatles: The Healing of Music
"God dwells wherever humans let him in."Martin Buber From “Bach in Brazil”Phil Cousineau At the far end of the wooden bridge is a small lake in an old granite quarry.… Read More ›
“Shining Like The Sun…That’s How The Light Gets In”
"Ring the bells that still can ring..."Leonard Cohen On March 19, 1947, Thomas Merton makes Solemn Vows at The Abbey of Gethsemani, Louisville, Kentucky. Eleven years later, March 19, 1958,… Read More ›
The Dive, The Pause, The Peace – Resting in Pisces Water
"Doesn't everyone belong in the arms of the Sacred?" Lady Gaga - "Angel Down" Hilo Bay, Hawaii August 2017 Even as the cold lifts and small buds appear on my… Read More ›
Dry Land – The Full Virgo Moon
The sun is streaming through my kitchen window shining on my face. I'm blasting Krishna Das - “I wanna know what love is…” in Sanskrit - and feeling the Full… Read More ›
Fire & Water: Coming Home
"It seems to me that I have greater peace and am close to God when I am not 'trying to be a contemplative' or trying to be anything special, but… Read More ›
Entering The Three Dark Months The Magic and Mystery of Scorpio
Nearly new crescent moon at dawn. Effort, PA Here in Pennsylvania, the New Scorpio Moon comes in with a flood. How appropriate for such a deep watery sign. Water is… Read More ›
Thanksgiving and Loss
"If God said, 'Rumi, pay homage to everything that has helped you enter my arms,' there would not be one experience of my life, not one thought, not one feeling,… Read More ›