It was way back in November of 2022 that I last wrote an entire post about poetry (The Gift of Rumi), so I’m super excited to share this follow-up. I’ve long been a fan of spiritual poetry. To hear it read at church opens my heart like nothing else. When I heard Rev. Lauri GistContinue reading “America’s Mystical Poet”
Category Archives: Spirituality
The Wilderness Connection
I’ve just finished reading Scott Stillman’s book Wilderness: The Gateway to the Soul. It evokes many of the feelings and musings I experienced while exploring the wilds of this country. I realize now that the words I’ve used in describing my 3-year experience (of road tripping, tent camping, hiking, photographing natural beauty, and finding myContinue reading “The Wilderness Connection”
The Gift of Rumi
Why do you stay in prisonWhen the door is so wide open?Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.Live in silence.Flow down and down in everwidening rings of being. ~Rumi Recently, I watched Rumi: Poetry of the Heart, a short documentary in which teachers, historians, and American translators shared some important events from the poet’s personal life. Continue reading “The Gift of Rumi”
Micro of the Macro 