by Lindsay McLaughlin | Nov 19, 2017 | Contemplations
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift. –Mary Oliver At dawn my small dining room window framed a patch of gauzy coral cloud pierced by a morning star. As I watched, light wafted from the...
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 Lindsay McLaughlin | Oct 4, 2017 | Contemplations
Photo by Linda DeGraf I’ve been taken with a Rilke poem, “Gravity’s Law”, which begins How surely gravity’s law, strong as an ocean current, takes hold of the smallest thing and pulls it toward the heart of the world. I like the idea of gravity as a flow taking hold...
by Lindsay McLaughlin | Sep 4, 2017 | Contemplations
“Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone…” David Whyte I heard the first geese a few days ago, flying overhead, their calls to one another heralding autumn, the season of mystery and transformation. The tupelo trees have been sending out...
by Lindsay McLaughlin | Jul 15, 2017 | Contemplations
The dark green leaves of the vine-laden, twisted old ash tree are twinkling in the light after the sudden rainstorm. Beyond it, down by the creek, the ancient willow stump is fat and full with graceful, slender branches rising directly out of the gnarled core. July...
by Lindsay McLaughlin | Jun 12, 2017 | Contemplations
I’m bringing you this afternoon a little story about what happened in the Rolling Ridge garden on a rainy evening in April. Rolling Ridge is a haven for wilderness and wild things, a place for Partner Groups to renew themselves in faith and friendship, a cradle for...
