Archive - To Care And Not To Care

How I became a spiritual director

Jun 10 •

May 2025

Apertures, March/April edition, no. 14

shaking hands with the poet; spring's last word; the dissimilar silences of Small Things Like These; Spirit, in the words of Mary Oliver; my poem on…

May 1 •

April 2025

March 2025

Change of Plans

Releasing control between what I'm doing and what I'm writing about + favorite reads from the week

Mar 20 •

A poem for the news today.

Mar 19 •

Mise en place, Mixing and Transformation

Reflection on the first week of Lent

Mar 15 •

Kneading Dough and Hearing Hearts

new article for Faith + Lead

Mar 14 •

Forty Days of Baking Bread in the Wilderness of my Senses

Baking and writing my way into what I don't know

Mar 4 •

February 2025

Tending the Holy

How do we stand in the light in the swift and blinding pain of broken things?

Feb 20 •

January 2025

Apertures, January edition, No. 13

reflections on sanity; the precariousness of prayer; confessions of silence; Ann Powers' deep listening; Buechner's patriotism; confetti over Times…

Jan 31 •

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