by Lindsay McLaughlin | Mar 22, 2018 | Contemplations
Last week we changed the clocks, “spring forward”, shifting the hours to catch more afternoon sun. As the daylight slowly widens toward the solstice, we strive to let the natural light linger, to grasp its presence. Around here we have taken advantage of the longer...
by Lindsay McLaughlin | Feb 25, 2018 | Contemplations
Frog Eggs in the Pond used with permission by Douglas James Studios It must be the season, or the year. This snowless winter I was part of three retreats, one per month, about finding the grace in darkness even while leaning toward the light, about the essential...
by Lindsay McLaughlin | Jan 25, 2018 | Contemplations
Photo by Joy Houck Bauer How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of … the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one’s culture but within oneself? … One must live in the middle of contradiction,...
by Lindsay McLaughlin | Jan 5, 2018 | Contemplations
As is our annual practice, some of us gathered at the Meditation Shelter in the night of December 31 for a time of quiet, bringing whatever was in our hearts. Once again we walked through a moon-bathed forest to the Shelter, aglow in candlelight and warmed by the...
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 Lindsay McLaughlin | Dec 14, 2017 | Contemplations
The retreat we hold annually during Advent and the days leading up to the winter solstice is named for a gift, one among many, that of story. Planning it, I was drawn to the idea that while in the northern hemisphere the winter solstice marks the beginning of the...
