Content Tagged ‘Imagination’
August 8, 2018 | Tags: fresh words, Imagination, imagining, journal, play, summer writing, travel
I took a break from presenting this summer to work on a new book. Then, having turned in my manuscript to my publisher, I took a break from writing with daily word-count goals. Going off-line and on the road, I took the advice of a friend and left my hefty journal behind. Get something fresh […]
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December 14, 2017 | Tags: beginning, Change, Christmas, dreams, earth, heaven, hope, Imagination, what if, wonder
Earth but cloaks our heaven, Giovanni Giocondo wrote on a Christmas Eve almost 500 years ago. By which I understand him to be saying that the holy glimmers everywhere around us and within us, if we would but look beneath the coverings that conceal it. I beseech you to look, he says and continues: We, judging […]
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December 2, 2016 | Tags: Between, Change, Difficult Times, Imagination, Letting Go, Peace, questions, Thresholds, transformations
Here, Here, where already you have left behind by choice or by force what you knew what you might have cherished what you maybe took for granted. Here, where not yet do you know where you’re headed what it will take what it will give how it will change you. Here, on the threshold you […]
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November 11, 2016 | Tags: community, Difficult Times, endurance, fear, hope, humanity, Imagination, nature
Any national election has the potential to redefine how a country understands its identity. So it’s no surprise that the recent presidential election in the U.S. has reverberated so deeply in the core of our fears and vulnerabilities. Since the elections this week, many people are stunned, angry, grieving and fearful about the future. What […]
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February 5, 2016 | Tags: Beloved Community, hope, Imagination, Justice
Believe it or not, this is the week announcing the return of spring! We are halfway between the winter solstice and the spring equinox, and even as I finished shoveling a foot of new snow that fell here in the upper Midwest, I nodded to the week’s celebrations of old Celtic and Christian rituals marking […]
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