by Linda DeGraf | Dec 20, 2018 | Contemplations
Photo by Keith Lyndaker American culture tends to prize maximum choice with minimum limitations and, especially in this season, urges us to want more—not less. We tie ourselves in knots stressing over constraints of time and chafe at the notion that others may...
by Linda DeGraf | Apr 10, 2018 | Contemplations
I recently participated in a conversation in which dissatisfaction or dissonance was a recurring theme poignantly and piercingly captured in a line quoted from a Mary Oliver poem: I am so distant from the hope of myself, in which I have goodness, and discernment…...
by Linda DeGraf | Dec 31, 2017 | Contemplations
Photography by Linda DeGraf Every creature is a glistening, glittering mirror of divinity. ~ Hildegard of Bingen Recently I came across a few lines I’d written years ago in a journal: “They say that trees and plants encased in ice incur more damage by attempts to...
by Linda DeGraf | Oct 9, 2017 | Contemplations
It seems all too easy for modern life to become one continuous rush tainted with frustration and a feeling that there is never enough time to do anything with care and sensitivity. So it is a very useful practice just to take one’s time. The truth is that if we can...
by Linda DeGraf | May 11, 2017 | Contemplations
May 2017 Having recently participated in a weeklong gathering to explore the Enneagram in Motion, I have been pondering the nature of soul, transformation, and the interdependence necessarily at the heart of the evolution of human consciousness. Russ Hudson...
