Stillness is one of my favorite spiritual practices. I find it to be one of life’s most wonderful experiences. In stillness I find refreshment, my voice, my interconnection with all of life, and the source of creative expression. …

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. …

For the past sixteen years I’ve lived in a small town eleven miles west of Boston. For the first thirteen of those years I commuted into Boston five or six days a week, worked long hours, and knew the roads that led in and out of Boston better than I knew my neighbors. …

As I began reading Sallie McFague’s The Body of God the image of Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man captured my imagination. It was amazing to me how quickly I could accurately visualize da Vinci’s drawing when I read McFague’s reference, “The classic organic model is expressed in the phrase ‘the church as the body of Christ’ and pictured in Leonardo da Vinci’s drawing of a male figure with arms and legs outstretched to the four corners of the cosmos.” By the time I finished reading the section, “The Classic Organic Model,” my mind was swirling with different interpretations of his image. …

The legislative season just concluding July 31, 2008 at the State House in Massachusetts produced a bumper crop of new environmental legislation. Five different bills passed. This is big! Huge, in fact. It represents a fresh and progressive approach that simultaneously addresses conservation, technology – renewable energy, and a green economy. As a newcomer to the environmental advocacy work I stand in awe of what has been accomplished. …

by Carol Hohle
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert is a delightful, attention grabbing read that let me travel through Italy, India and Indonesia in the span of a weekend all from the comfort of my backyard lawn chair!  Gilbert’s writing style is amusing, witty and intelligent.  And, I marvel at her outgoing spirit.
This memoir/travelogue [...]