You are the place where I stand on the day when my feet are sore. This is the literal translation of “mo sheasamh ort lá no choise tinne,” the Irish phrase for trust, as noted by Pádraig Ó Tuama. I’ve been thinking a lot about trust lately, partly because every survey and every statistic shows […]
Dear Honeybees, On this St. Patrick’s Day weekend, I share with you John O’Donohue’s blessed Blessing (Beannacht). On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble, may the clay dance to balance you. And when your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets in to […]
One of the huge confusions in our times is to mistake glamour for beauty. – John O’Donohue, in conversation with Krista Tippett I was inspired (as is often the case) when listening to a recent OnBeing podcast that revisited an extended conversation between journalist Krista Tippett and poet John O’Donohue. This passage on beauty […]
I live my life in widening circles… This is one of my favorite Rilke poems, and the translation by Joanna Macy is especially wonderful: I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. I may not complete this last one but I give myself to it. I circle around God, around […]
Despite our fears of falling, the gifts of the world stand by to catch us. – Robin Kimmerer I’ve been starting each morning lately with a few pages from the poetic book, Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Kimmerer. Robin is a professor of environmental biology and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, and […]