by JAC | May 9, 2019 | Love and Loss, Mindfulness, Simplicity, Uncategorized
“In our deepest self we keep living with the illusion that we will always be the same.” Henri Nowen “It’s really very simple,” my late spiritual director, Gladys, once said to me. She was talking about how she lived each day, waking up,...
by JAC | Feb 28, 2019 | Lent, Mindfulness, Simplicity, Transformation, Uncategorized
I keep thinking about writing here, and then for some reason I don’t. There is just such an overwhelming amount of words and thoughts out in the world and at our fingertips; I hesitate to add to it just for the sake of saying something or building a...
by JAC | Jun 13, 2018 | Acts of Hope, Mindfulness
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded...
by JAC | May 3, 2018 | Artists, Mindfulness, Seasons, Waiting
Yet still the unresting castles thresh In fullgrown thickness every May. Last year is dead, they seem to say, Begin afresh, afresh, afresh. from “The Trees” by Philip Larkin “What is all this juice and all this joy?” wrote Gerard Manley...
by JAC | Mar 13, 2018 | Mindfulness, Poems
“Low-sunk life imagines itself weary of life, but it is death, not life, it is weary of.” George MacDonald “So much wasted time.” These were one man’s final words as he lay dying. Such sad final words. Peoples’ last words are often...
by JAC | Jan 30, 2018 | Big Words, Mindfulness, Simplicity
“Don’t own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire. ― Wendell Berry I was at our local craft store yesterday picking up some dried moss for Audrey’s Native American project at school. Craft stores feel a little bit like a...
