The reason...

...for so many things. And so many things for this reason.


I'm too tired to be witty. Perhaps tomorrow I'll post an essay.

I have...

...absolutely nothing of value to say today. I'm tired. It's raining, which is nice. I didn't have the time or energy to shoot a photo today, so I'll use another or two from the retreat. Guess I'll get religious on y'all tonight.

My retreat reading material

I had never read The Imitation of Christ before. It's pretty powerful, but one must access it in metered doses. The book that is rocking my world right now, that dovetailed so perfectly with the themes of our retreat, is The Crime of Living Cautiously, by Luci Shaw. Just the title alone grabbed me. And the book is proving to be quite wonderful. I'll share with you a poem she includes, one by Richard Wilbur:

Anonymous as cherubs
Over the crib of God,
White seeds are floating
Out of my burst pod.

What power had I
Before I learned to yield?
Shatter me, great wind:
I shall possess the field.

Richard Wilbur
“Two Voices in a Meadow”
In About a Milkweed Pod