Gleanings from a Traveling Sabbatical April 1 – September 1, 2011 Two Mythic Truths: Life is Gaia’s gift to the Universe Love is Life’s gift to Gaia And a Teaching: What to do for the Rest of Your Life: Review every relationship, Every relationship, Until nothing is left of that relationship Except Thanks and Praise […]
The sun is bright and cloud piercing; the wind wild and almost always at our backs, the road definitely rising to meet us. For those who remember Ireland, we spent two days in Sligo, and said hello to W B Yeats at his gravesite, where the air still moves from Peg O’Brien’s dance for him […]
Creating a Book of Hours “Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous laws”: Psalm 119:164 The writer of wonders Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees, and other riches, both fiction and non-fiction) once offered a teaching on the ancient tradition of praying at specific hours of the day and night. […]
Last night the first rainfall of autumn poured down as two friends and I made our way to the nearby town of Jacksonville, Oregon, intending (at yet another birthday celebration) to have dinner and hear the concert presented by the amazing ten-man singing group, Straight No Chaser, on the outdoor stage of the Peter Britt […]
On my 75th birthday friends carried me away to a dream. The dream consisted of days spent in Istanbul, seeing once again Hagia Sophia, that very early Christian declaration in monumental stone of the miracle that is Holy Wisdom; the Blue Mosque (hearing the Call to Prayer with newly attuned ears on the first day […]
The book is going out into the world via the wonders of the internet, among other travels. I will post interviews as they are scheduled and if you wish, you can listen to the live broadcasts or listen later to the archived interviews. A Closer Look with Pam Atherton — To Be and How to […]
One of the grandest and funniest songs ever written is Noel Coward’s “I’ve been to a marvelous party.” And for maybe the first time in my life I comprehend exactly what he’s singing about. It’s true nobody swung upside down on the brass chandelier, but that may be only because I don’t have a chandelier. […]