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making beauty

(Originally published Saturday, December 31, 2005) I have been doing a bit of ranting lately … about the horrors of the death penalty, about the scandal of an administration that is reluctant to...

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a beautiful place, a beautiful moment

Last Saturday, on a beach on the shores of Lake Huron, my son was married. What an extraordinary setting for a wedding! And what a privilege to perform the ceremony …

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a view through the trees

I like this photograph. It is different from most of my other Monhegan photos — no stunning cliffs rising from the sea, no waves exploding on the rocks guarding the shoreline, no colorful lilies or...

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the face in the mirror

You should review the short documentary film made by a New York City high school student: A Girl Like Me. A September 19 editorial by Leonard Pitts led me to the site. As he writes, Be warned: if you...

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love and war

We were visited by a major winter storm in Iowa this weekend, and our Saturday and Sunday plans (which were many!) were cancelled. We enjoyed some good down time, a fire in the fireplace, and we...

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beauty, and life, take time

I really liked today’s entry at inward/outward … so I am taking the liberty of reprinting it here for you! By Macrina Wiederkehr Life unfolds a petal at a time slowly. The beauty of the process is...

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seeing gray

Writing in Sojouorners magazine (In the prison-industrial complex, is there hope for redemption?), Nancy Hastings Sehested, a Baptist minister and prison chaplain, describes a North Carolina...

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