True story: I was talking to my husband Ely the other day about the candidates for the November election. We were sitting at the dining room table, my Iphone next to me. All of a sudden Siri (the Iphone "assistant") just started answering me! She said "I don't understand" and then she repeated the whole run-on sentence that I evidently was in the Continue Reading
Gifts everywhere
"Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal." Abraham Joshua Heschel Anything that stops us in our tracks and helps us experience a moment of "wow" is a Continue Reading
Mary Oliver on Awe
Instructions for life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. Mary Oliver (from her poem "Sometimes") This photo was taken on a walk around our neighborhood in Mar Vista (Los Angeles) - You can just be walking, and come upon such beauty! Click on the photo to really see how amazing this flower is! (for more beautiful up-close photography Continue Reading
Seeing Life Close-Up
To see a World in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower , Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand , And Eternity in an hour... William Blake, Auguries of Innocence http://www.shinethedivinecreativityisaspiritualpractice.com cherry blossoms, Garrison Retreat Center, 2013 Continue Reading
