• November 11, 2025

    “The place where you are right now, God circled on the map for you…. The Beloved has bowed there, knowing you were coming.” -Hafiz I’ve been restless lately, anxious about [...]

  • August 2, 2022

    Now that I live in a world where I hear cows (and roosters and horses) from my porch every morning, I notice things I might otherwise have missed, like this [...]

  • June 3, 2022

    ​Imagine this as your dream: It's early morning, you’re on vacation somewhere far away, maybe a town in Japan or Greece or Kenya . You’re just sitting in the park, [...]

  • May 10, 2022

    Early one morning, as we drove from suburb into farmland, my friend’s dashboard emitted a worrisome DING and this warning appeared on the GPS screen: ​ Unverified Area? Like Brigadoon, Narnia, [...]

  • March 11, 2022

    My little cousins came to visit, and we made a fine mess. Seedballs!  Flower seeds mixed into potting soil and clay, then dried into portable pods.  You throw them here [...]

  • February 2, 2022

    Dear Dreamers, A few years ago, a new word burst upon the internet, and we learned about hygge, or “cozy comfortable conviviality” – which summarizes the Scandinavian approach to surviving [...]

  • January 4, 2022

    ​Do you ever emerge from the haze of sleep with one tiny flake of a dream, maybe just a single image, phrase, or feeling?  ​Me too. What about you? I [...]

  • December 8, 2021

    ​My cherubic sons are now big and hairy and out in the world: I love them to distraction and I’m insanely proud of them. Here at Advent, I’m thinking of [...]