I stepped outside last night at about eight or so and the snow had already begun. Douglas used to say, you’ve got the writing part down. The question is, what do you want to do with it? I had hoped for a quiet snow gently falling so I could use “sussuration” in today’s writing, butContinue reading “Advent Travels: The Posture of a Guest”
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Advent Travels: Happy Servants All Evening
What do I have to give to Jesus? What does Jesus want? Or are those the wrong questions? An Advent journey ends at the manger in Bethlehem, with a gift for Jesus. But what if it doesn’t? What if, halfway to Bethlehem, one of the wise men falls in love and bails on the journey?Continue reading “Advent Travels: Happy Servants All Evening”
Advent Travels: The Rule is, Don’t Lie
The rule is, don’t lie. And related to that is the understanding that I don’t always know when I’m lying. This game we are playing – this work we are doing – is not for the faint of heart. “Lying” is a bad word because of its moral and negative connotations. “Fantasy” is better. AsContinue reading “Advent Travels: The Rule is, Don’t Lie”
Advent Travels: Running Away
It is relatively easy for me to talk about the birth of Jesus as a mythological event that you and I can actually experience. My brief but intense study of James Hillman – especially The Thought of the Heart – prepared me well. It was Hillman who taught me that: “the thought of the heartContinue reading “Advent Travels: Running Away”
Advent Travels: The Raspberry Patch
I say travels, but I am not going anywhere. Most of my life I projected a future that – although it never came – kept me passionately focused on tomorrow rather than today, there instead of here. It felt optimistic and forward looking. It privileged dreaming over any other activity. A different house, different land,Continue reading “Advent Travels: The Raspberry Patch”
Christ is a Collective
I The Next Buddha I don’t remember when I first read Michael Bauwans’ “The Next Buddha Will Be a Collective: Spiritual Expression in the Peer-to-Peer Era.” It was written in 2007; I doubt I saw it until at least 2012. I liked the title. Bauwans suggested that society is evolving away from an historic emphasisContinue reading “Christ is a Collective”