by Linda DeGraf | Dec 5, 2016 | Contemplations, Uncategorized
Standing at the edge of an abyss is no way to contemplate the coming new year. Yet that is how my heart feels, as though the earth has shaken beneath our feet and split asunder. I am reminded of a conversation in a television show of my youth —a teenage...
by Linda DeGraf | Nov 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
Photo credit: Linda DeGraf October 2016 Dear Friends ~ As I write, the wind stirs leaves barely tinged with autumn color as a steady rain soaks into the earth so recently parched by summer’s sun. On the cusp of seasonal change, the land seems poised between fecundity...
by Linda DeGraf | Aug 31, 2016 | Uncategorized
Portrait of Archbishop Dom Helder Camara of Brazilian Liberation Theology who said, “It is useless to dream of reforming society without a corresponding deep change in our inner lives.” Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to...
by Linda DeGraf | Jul 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
Creativity is, foremost, being in the world soulfully, for the only thing we truly make, whether in the arts, in culture, or at home, is soul. ~ Thomas Moore In a time of mass shootings, refugee crises, and environmental degradation it is hard to speak...
by Linda DeGraf | Jun 3, 2016 | Contemplations
“Rumi said that all words are fingers pointing to the moon, and we think the words are the moon. But because of the light, the light of love, the energy and motion that have called us to prayer, bits of this deeper reality are perceivable, and little bits of it...
