Posts that remind us how the light gets in and inspire us. Inspiring photos and quotes
I went out to the woods yesterday at Carver Park Reserve for a hike with my camera. As I hiked I asked myself, What is the face of God? That was my last photo assignment in the online photography class that ended this Sunday. I was late working on the Read more…
This morning I listened to a short guided reflection created by Tara Brach, called “Attending to Joy” (see video link below). In it Tara talked about how we need to be open to sensing and feeling the pain and dysfunction of the world. But we also need to be open Read more…
Yesterday, for the first time in over a year, I drove into Minneapolis. I was shocked as I drove through the Uptown area and saw store after store boarded up and National Guard humvees, troops and police cars parked along almost empty streets. (This was before the verdict in the Read more…
It is the season for spring Ephemeral wildflowers. Of all of the the flowers that I love, these are my favorites. So many of them are tiny and they are here for only a few days of the year, then gone until the next spring arrives. I first fell in Read more…
I believe that much of our basic suffering in life lives in the unseen, unfelt parts of our psyche, the under-currents of fear and deficiency that we avoid seeing and feeling. We often wall off our feelings of deficiency and develop strategies to cover them over. And we begin to Read more…