“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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]








