Dharma art

I wish to urge students of the dharma who may have forsaken their creative impulse in favor of practice to realize there is no conflict between creativity and meditation. Creativity can be understood, in essence, to be the practice of our own nature and that nature’s expression. You may find your way in to the [...]

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The holiness of beauty

Today is our neighborhood’s annual community yard sale, situated in the park that divides the main street into north and south (or, more precisely, northwest and southeast).  My husband went out around nine a.m. to get a cup of coffee and browse the offerings; he came back around ten-thirty with a buttered bagel for me [...]

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Your earworm of the day

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Ta-da!

Behold my shiny new header, made for me by my friend Megan Amoss. It’s my little hermit shack in the city.  *enthuses*

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New links!

Have I mentioned Anglican solitary Maggie Ross before?  In the 1980s and 1990s, she wrote several wonderful books on the liturgical year, solitary life, and the theology of priesthood which are now, I say joyfully, back in print and available from your usual booksellers.  In addition, she’s republishing some old work and blogging trenchantly about [...]

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Tapping the strands of the web

The New Yorker has a fascinating and slightly horrifying article about itching and how medical understandings of it have changed and are changing.
Mental Floss shows us some of the art of Henry Darger–janitor, recluse, untutored visionary artist.
Head Butler reviews Raising Sand, the astonishing collaboration between Robert Plant and Alison Krauss.

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