It turns out that offering water blessings has its challenges. After my wonderful Ocean experiences in early November I have been going every weekend now for three weeks to sacred water locations in different places in Seattle. Last week, however, I…
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Quite a few posts from the past few months (Seattle Soul Cartography, Licton Springs, Sparkles on the water, South Jetty) have been explorations of local bodies of water and what they mean to me. That is actually just the tip of the…
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The election: I have something to say about that, but first, a little story. While on a walk last weekend Victoria and I came across one of those Little Free Libraries that are sprouting up everywhere. This particular library has…
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It took me a few decades to get there, but my life has not been the same since I realized who the devil really is: it’s my own fear and doubt and self-criticism. Things really started to shift, leading to…
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At college, for some mad reason I took a quarter-long seminar course on the poetry of John Milton. I came to appreciate the beauty and subtlety of his writing, and I do remember writing a decent paper on the role of…
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“What do you want?” Such a simple question, but one we can spend our whole lives trying to answer. I have a friend who is a spiritual director, and is perhaps the sanest and most open-hearted follower of Jesus I…
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By chance one day we happened upon Rokkaku-do, a little temple nestled in the middle of a city block in the center of Kyoto, surrounded by skyscrapers. In this unpromising spot the evidence of devotional practices was everywhere: in the…
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We have a new moon in Cancer coming to us early in the morning Pacific Time on Monday July 4. As a Cancerian myself with a resonant Pisces moon I feel particularly attuned to this happening. The reflections below are personal…
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Down at the foot of the sloping neighborhood where I live, in Carkeek Park, alders gather in abundance alongside the creeks, lifting their leafy branches in great arches above me. Alder, that ubiquitous water-loving magnificent teacher and healer, is the special focus…
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