by Lindsay McLaughlin | Apr 1, 2019 | Contemplations
The old willow stump by the creek has sprouted pale green fronds. The crocuses are pushing up through brown leaves. Water in the creeks gurgles irrepressibly over rocks, bird song wafts delicate music in the trees, and frogs make frothy love in the ponds. Spring has...
by Katie Jones Pomeroy | Mar 18, 2019 | Contemplations
Winter is my favorite season on the mountain. Summer was fine enough for a kid in suburbia, poolside, no school. But as an adult – a postpartum adult – I find summer absolutely suffocating. Especially on the mountain. The heat. The thick walls of green....
by Lindsay McLaughlin | Feb 19, 2019 | Contemplations
“Dreaming Awake” collage by Doug Van Houten Something inside of me has reached to the place where the world is breathing. –Kabir Days each week, I go walking in the woods with a story in my pocket. It’s winter now, and the landscape is a mass of...
by Lindsay McLaughlin | Jan 3, 2019 | Contemplations
The contemplated night gathering in the Meditation Shelter to quietly mark the new year did not happen. Illness in the community, the travel of some to distant family, and the exigencies of settling children for bed after early evening merriment, storytelling, and...
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 Joy Houck Bauer | Dec 14, 2018 | Contemplations
(Photography by Josh Houck) “Because this bird is singing to me, I belong to the wide wind, the people far away who share the air and the clouds. together we are looking up into all we do not own and we are listening.” – Naomi Shihab Nye As a child, my family...
