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Here we go! The morning has arrived when I cannot walk in the meadow without stepping on tiny purples and whites and violets, when I can stand still and watch, literally watch, the greening happening and the blooming emerging, right before my eyes. An hour ago there were no pear blossoms, now here they are! […]
A Provocative Look at Thanksgiving
T E A C H I N G A B O U T T H A N K S G I V I N G Dr. Frank B. Brouillet Superintendent of Public Instruction State of Washington Cheryl Chow Assistant Superintendent Division of Instructional Programs and Services Warren H. Burton Director Office for Multicultural and Equity […]
That Intersecting Space
This is only one slant, one among many possible. Not to be read as any kind of absolute. Just a meditation on a moment in time, a psyche in flux. Tomorrow, some other voice will speak. But for now… A conundrum, a paradox… a way through? Here’s how it goes. Taught the dangers of pride, […]
Amid the Violence
In this turbulent time in our world, as even the trained “care-givers” are pushed by events and emotions over the edge to do unbelievable violence, I realize that all of us are victims… we are victims of a time of such fierce division, hatred, anxiety, and we are bombarded by what is so often hateful […]
Herodotus on Deity
Herodotus is often called the “father of history.” Born in about 485 BC in Halicarnassus , he wrote a bardic history of the Persian Wars, describing how a coalition of Greek city-states defeated invasion by the great Persian Empire. Widely traveled and observant, Herodotus recounts many details about the religions of various peoples of the […]
So I Hear
Held together by a shoestring. Mama’s expression. String’s frayed. Or duck tape. Coming unglued. Hanging by a thread. Unraveling. Over an abyss. Don’t look now. It’s a war zone. All too much. Everybody, it seems, is having themselves a nervous breakdown. A collective short circuit’s going on. Sparks flying. Metaphysical explanations everywhere you turn, but […]
Snake
There’s a snake in the Garden of Eden. A fat copperhead. And I myself must not amount to much because he was not startled enough even to bother to bite me. Instead he sidled away, s-wise, slowly, scaly belly to the fertile ground, while I froze in place, my hand on a broad squash leaf […]
An Incomparable Earthsprings Moment
Mostly I experience, absorb, wonder, and move on. Sometimes I just have to share… Many of you have been to Earthsprings and know the folks who live here, like Tux the tomcat, for example. Some of you haven’t been to Earthsprings, so let me fill you in. Several years ago Tux came up out of […]
Perennials, Archetypes, and Eternal Life
Today the daylily that Rebecca Estes’ father hybridized in memory of Shelia and Rich’s son, Kenneth Collins, is blooming again here at Earthsprings. This morning, after taking a picture of it, I walked up the hill to the big old pecan tree under which some of Ken’s ashes were sprinkled. I spent some time thinking […]
A Life of Service
Jim Lemon wasn’t the very first person I met when I moved to Texas twenty-five years ago. But he was the first person I met about whom I thought “Now here is someone I can talk with about things that really matter!” And, off and on, we’ve been talking ever since. But it hasn’t been […]
