Recently I enjoyed an inspiring meeting with a friend whom I met through our mutual involvement with the Women’s Interfaith Institute in the Berkshires. We had reconnected at a recent WII event, so it was a pleasure to have some time with her today. What happened when we spoke was an experience of what theologian [...]
Today we will be attending a family Passover Seder, even though it’s not quite Passover. This family gathering is a large one, about fifty people, so scheduling can be tricky. At the home of a cousin, all ages will gather, from infants to great-grandparents, for a beautiful and joyous ritual meal remembering the Exodus; the [...]
In the past few days, I felt out of sorts, as if my life no longer “fit” properly. In my experience, when I feel that discomfort – like a hermit crab that’s outgrown its borrowed shell, or a snake on the verge of molting – it is uncomfortable, constricting, dark and tight. There was nothing [...]
Born innocent, one – that’s I – strives hard to become an adult, no longer childish, worldly-wise in one’s art, one’s love, one’s life . . . Then discovers: that no one ever becomes an adult, becomes either delightfully childlike or pitifully juvenile . . . Discovers: one’s art to be outside the art game [...]
A number of years ago I attended a gathering with Jean Houston. She talked about the special social responsibility of people over fifty years of age, because elders have a life-time of experience and have “access to the depths.” What depths are these? I think of the Underworld, understood in many ways by different cultures. [...]
In the film of The Fellowship of the Ring, when the Hobbits asked Strider where they were going together, after they left the inn called The Prancing Pony, he answered, “Into the wild.” In that tale they went off the path, across wild country to avoid confronting the evil dark riders. My forays off the [...]
