Not that transparent self tucked under my skin... one day to be set free by my death that it might fly.

Have you ever had a spiritual experience, a sense of movement of the spirit? A flash in time when your appreciation for the world was so complete, so perfect, that you were transfixed and transformed?

There are a whole lot of words from poets and preachers and wise folks of various types that have changed how I understand the world, but there’s one quote that has maybe shaped what I’ve done with my life more than any other.

“I love seeing that you’re entertaining earth spirits in the yard,” the man said to me, bending his head so that his tall frame could fit through my front door.

Help us be the always hopeful gardeners of the spirit who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth as without light nothing flowers.

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We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within [us] is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE.

At age 10 or 11 I was just beginning to understand more about how the world works, about morals and ethics and my own agency. I was waking up to my ability to make choices about all kinds of things.

I grew up poor, although I didn’t think we were. We always had food. My dad drove a car.

I want to tell you a story about a little boy who got up from the table where his older brother and mom sat, to go back to his room.