When the smallness of my vision Dampens all hope inside, I simply watch And these clumsy feet keep moving. When what could have been Turns bitter and dusty from wear I feel the tiniest move as a miracle. When the bit is cold in my mouth and When daylight reveals only a potholed Road, justContinue reading “epiphany 2026”
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#adventapertures2025: day 25
Remembering that it happened once,We cannot turn away the thought,As we go out, cold, to our barnsToward the long night’s end, that weOurselves are living in the worldIt happened in when it first happened,That we ourselves, opening a stall(A latch thrown open countless timesBefore), might find them breathing there,Foreknown: the Child bedded in straw,The motherContinue reading “#adventapertures2025: day 25”
#adventapertures2025: day 21
Silence has its own notation: dark Jottings of duration, but not pitch, A long black box, or little feathered hitch Like a new Greek letter or diacritical mark Silence is a function of Time, the lark In flight but not in song. A nothing which Keeps secrets or confesses. Pregnant, rich, Or awkward, cold, theContinue reading “#adventapertures2025: day 21”
#adventapertures2025: day 19
I praise you because you are artist and scientist in one. When I am somewhat fearful of your power, your ability to work miracles with a set-square, I hear you murmuring to yourself in a notation Beethoven dreamed of but never achieved. You run off your scales of rain water and sea water, play theContinue reading “#adventapertures2025: day 19”
#adventapertures2025: Sunday 3
‘It was said of Rabbi Simcha Bunim that he carried two slips of paper, one in each pocket. On one he wrote: Bishvili nivra ha’olam – “For my sake the world was created.” On the other he wrote: V’anokhi afar v’aefer – “I am but dust and ashes.” He would take out each slip ofContinue reading “#adventapertures2025: Sunday 3”
#adventapertures2025: day 13
Last thing each night, go out for the moon. Pull on old coat, shut garden gate. Roll up old sleeves. Swing arms. Poor soul. Think moonset. Moonrise. All running to schedule. World black and white, Walk up the lane. Last thing each night. Look up for the moon. No sign but rain. Almost back home.Continue reading “#adventapertures2025: day 13”
#adventapertures2025: day 12
There exists only the present instant… a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence. Meister Eckhart Imagine if your culture had such an understanding of Deep Time,Continue reading “#adventapertures2025: day 12”
#adventapertures2025: day 11
Do you bow your head when you pray or do you lookup into that blue space?Take your choice, prayers fly from all directions.And don’t worry about what language you use,God no doubt understands them all.Even when the swans are flying north and makingsuch a ruckus of noise, God is surely listeningand understanding.Rumi said, There is noContinue reading “#adventapertures2025: day 11”
#adventapertures2025: Sunday 2
It is not by chance that both words consideration and desire (from Latin desiderium)-make reference to the stars (sidera in Latin). Stars played a role in medieval cosmology that might surprise us: seeds were thought to grow into different plants as their response to different stars – a special star for oak trees and aContinue reading “#adventapertures2025: Sunday 2”
#adventapertures2025: day 5
I carry with me the awareness that many people find that this season brings not tidings of comfort and joy but of frustration and grief…. I believe… that in this season [we are invited] to carry the light, yes, but also to see in the dark and to find the shape of things in theContinue reading “#adventapertures2025: day 5”
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