Hope, painting by George Frederik Watts, 1886 September 16, 2025 Thank you to all who have contributed and commented on my recent blog series’ ‘”Resistance and Resilience” which has focused on the ways that the creative arts can become instruments of both pushback/reminders as well as invitations to grounding and stillness. Contributions can be foundContinueContinue reading “Resistance and Resilience: Hope”
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Resistance and Resilience: Stillness
Photograph (c) Lois Justrabo “Be still and know that I am God.” (Ps. 46:10) In these tense months since Donald Trump became President and his administration began shredding the Constitution, I have walked a constant tightrope between despair and hope. In trying to maintain that impossible stance, I’ve come to realize that now, more thanContinueContinue reading “Resistance and Resilience: Stillness”
Resistance and Resilience: Birds
Photo credit (c) Turner Matthews August 3, 2025 “Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?” Matthew 6:26 Since the beginning of time, humans have turned to nature to find silence, centering, rejuvenation,ContinueContinue reading “Resistance and Resilience: Birds”
Resistance and Resilience: Grow
(c) Photo by Teresa Culbert May 30, 2025 As a poet and novelist, I’m fortunate to meet regularly with a group of diverse creatives: a poet/photographer, a poet/photographer/musician, a prose writer/poet, a watercolor artist, and a quilter. Most of us have never met personally, our group a blessing that grew out of Covid 19 andContinueContinue reading “Resistance and Resilience: Grow”
Resistance and Resilience: 1
Enos Mills, the “Father of the Rockies,” traveled throughout the Rocky Mountains for years, communing with animals rather than killing them for food or safety. May 20, 2025 A couple of days ago, I introduced a new theme for this blog: https://spiritreflectionsorg.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=4817&action=edit. I extended an invitation to all artists to join this gathering place, envisioningContinueContinue reading “Resistance and Resilience: 1”
Sacred Cycles
Nov. 17, 2021 I have been extremely fortunate this fall to see so much colorful foliage. Here in the southern states, the leaves typically dry up, turn brown, and tumble away, but this year, perhaps due to all the summer rain, they transformed themselves into muted reds and vibrant yellows. In New Hampshire, the autumnContinueContinue reading “Sacred Cycles”
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