During a stretch of abstracted listening, the flutists evoked a falcon with outstretched, glittering wings. 

Some days I wonder if half my trouble is that I prefer chairos to chronos. Chronos as in clock-time, doctors’ appointments, time for supper. Chairos as in non-linear, non-measured time. The time spent doing something absorbing. Time in meditation’s sweet spot. God’s time. An hour face-down on the acupuncturist’s table is sometimes just one dictation machine […]

I confess, one of the things that bugs me about blogging at 8:45pm, aside from the fragility of the time, is that It Doesn’t Seem Right. I have identified myself as a morning person, variant Robin, for more years of my life than not. To be creative before bed doesn’t fit that mold. To add […]

If you’d followed me around all day, I’d be startled if you agreed with me. My sleep was chopped up. I remembered things I specifically needed to do today and forgot them promptly. I had five text messages before I gathered my breakfast–messages left for me while I was sleeping–so I dropped into problem-solving mode […]

“It’s very inconvenient being a sculptor. It’s like playing the double-bass; one’s so handicapped by one’s luggage.” –character Marjorie Phelps, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Dorothy Sayers Today I will pen a little tribute to those things which changed my artist’s tools from double-bass to viola to piccolo. “Pen” is completely the wrong word, […]

I’m still workin’ the mindful timeliness thing. As in right here & right now — in the library parking lot, in the window after my haircut and before my volunteer shelver shift — getting something posted. Mindfully speaking, there’s a dinner engagement After Library. But today’s the kind of day I’ve got nothin’ in particular. […]

On the general principle of ‘when I buy a Beetle, I see everyone else has too,’ this week Charlie over at Productive Flourishing is asking: What’s the relationship between your patterns and the quality of what you create and experience? What changes to your patterns and defaults might produce better experiences and work for you? […]

…when it comes to this quote: I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. (Romans 7:15) One of the founding fathers of Christianity as we know it, with one of the most dramatic turnaround (flip-flop?) stories on record, and he […]

In other news, I completed SFD #2…and got all the way to the end! The end? An end, which regardless feels glorious. And it’s revise-able, also glorious. For the moment! Our feature today, however, is Bono & Eugene Petersen: THE PSALMS. Came out last Tuesday, and if you enjoy U2’s front man, or the guy who […]