by Beth on February 22, 2010
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. I come into [...]
by Beth on November 2, 2009
Reach out your hand if your cup be empty If your cup is full, may it be again; Let it be known there is a fountain That was not made by the hands of man. – Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia I can hardly believe it! As I search through my files, it slowly dawns [...]
Three of CupsThis is not a day for asking questions,not a day on any calendar.This day is conscious of itself.This day is a lover, bread, and gentleness,more manifest than saying can say. — Rumi With the Midsummer rites just past, and the full heat of the ripening times now upon us in the Northern Hemisphere, [...]
by Beth on January 7, 2009
Rise up with the new dawn’s early morningFeel the sunshine warm upon your faceTomorrow’s come a long, long way to help youYes, it’s your saving grace.– lyrics by Tim Davis, Steve Miller Band As our journey with the Graces concludes this week, I am inviting you to consider the meaning of Grace in your own [...]
by Beth on January 6, 2009
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.– Thornton Wilder This Friday, it will have been a year and a day since we set out on our magical journey to Graceland. If you have joined us along the way and are wondering what the [...]
by Beth on December 2, 2008
See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.– Helen KellerWinter Solstice is three weeks away and by now, we are all feeling the enormous pressure of the commercial juggernaut that surrounds us. But many of us are hurting from the economic crisis. And of course, the daily news is [...]
by Beth on November 27, 2008
Dark of the MoonNew beginningsDark of the MoonPlant a seed tonightDark of the MoonWhat we envisionWill come to be by the Full Moon’s light. Today is Thanksgiving Day in the U.S. and a powerful New Moon in Sagittarius. As Caitlin Matthews points out in her beautiful The Celtic Spirit: Daily Meditations for the Turning Year, [...]
by Beth on November 17, 2008
The Three of CupsA friend is someone who knows the song in your heartand can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.– Author unknown If you’ve been reading my blog this year, you know that I’ve been leading us on a journey to “Graceland,” in which we are honoring Grace, Virtue [...]
by Beth on October 15, 2008
Courage is not simply one of the virtues,but the form of every virtue at the testing point.– C.S. Lewis Most of you have caught on by now that it is no coincidence that I am writing about Virtue at this pivotal time of choices about our future. Of course, I had lots of help, for [...]
by Beth on October 7, 2008
AreteI had learned many English words in the white man’s school, and could recite part of the Ten Commandments. I learned to eat with a knife and fork. I also learned that a person is expected to think with his head and not his heart, and about his money not his spirit.– Sun Chief, Hopi [...]