Blog writing

Benediction

The days are too long and the nights come too early. My legs waver and my arms droop and my

Parker Palmer, a spiritual writer of the Quaker tradition, says community is the place where the person you least want

This week the apricots are ripening. I’m not the only one to have noticed—the crows, and another Aussie bird I

To think independently of other human beings is impossible, and if it were possible it would be undesirable. Thinking is

A couple of months ago, I had the opportunity to write a post for a friend’s blog. Since its birth

The only thing more beautiful than these fresh-picked cherries is the neighbor who brought them to my door.

The idea of reputation has been on my mind recently, and, with Advent also on my mind, I thought of

It’s when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint

In one of my favorite books, Robert Farrar Capon describes an amateur not, as we most commonly think of one,