If you love to read poems that make you gasp slightly, that say something to the deep core of you, you’ll love Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy. It’s no secret I’m a fan of Rilke; in fact I’ve taken my blog name from one of […]
Jesus, Are You Real?
Dan and I are fans of Mason Jennings, having seen him three times now in concert–once with Jack Johnson, whom we also love. There’s a realness and mellowness about him that can’t be beat with other performers, and we think he’s much better in person than he is on his CDs. Check him out sometime. […]
Jesus, Interrupted
Silly me. Not only did I forget to charge up my Kindle 2 before our CA trip (so it was dead on the flight out), but I also forgot my jump drive with my blog loaded on it, so five days from now, you’re going to discover five days of information suddenly uploaded to the […]
Remembering the Joy in Living
Today, I’m going to share two poems. The first encapsulates what I feel when I open the windows and doors in the spring–and hear the wind in the trees, the birdsong in the air, the chatter of squirrels, the rush of the stream down below. The second is my experience now. I can’t find God, […]
The Story of B
It’s not often that I read a book and come away feeling devastated, but devastated in the sense that all I’ve ever known has been called into question–legitimately and rightly. Brad, a friend of mine, had recommended Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael, to me last fall, right after he read an advanced copy of Eve. I devoured […]