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...
View Articlea 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 …
View Articlea 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...
View Articlethe 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...
View Articlelove 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...
View Articlebeauty, 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...
View Articleseeing 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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