the sensation of life
When an idea comes to us from different directions, the universe has a message for us. In the last few days, the idea that joy is a practice, rather than a hoped-for feeling, has come to me. From one direction, my dear friend, Carl “Skye” McColman, recently wrote a piece on his Substack about the … Continue reading Choosing Joy
…there is still somewhere deep within you a beast shouting that the earth is exactly what it wanted… Mary Oliver, Morning Poem ‘I tell you, if these were silent, the stones would shout out.’Luke 19.40 For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror…Rainer Maria Rilke, First Duino Elegy (tr. Stephen Mitchell) Prayer often begins … Continue reading … and joy