A little rainy day Rumi: Plant only love…
When you plant a tree
every leaf that grows will tell you,
what you sow will bear fruit.
So if you have any sense, my friend
don’t plant anything but love,
you show your worth by what you seek.
–Rumi
PBS features a real doctor of the Church, one with the bedside manner of a saint
“From a spiritual standpoint what I try and do as a physician is that even if I can’t cure the situation, even if I can’t cure the condition, if even I can’t make it all go away, if they’re being overburdened with that cross, if I can just hold up a corner sometimes, it might make it light enough for them to be able to carry it and move on.” Those are the beautiful and somewhat unexpected words of Dr. Joseph Dutkowsky, an orthopedic surgeon who specializes in caring for people with disabilities. (more…)
Are you brave enough to take off your cape?
“It’s braver to be Clark Kent than it is to be Superman.” That’s the heart of this amazing talk by Glennon Doyle Melton, author of Carry on Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed and my new hero. In fact, she is a superhero in my book. Please watch this clip, “Lessons From the Mental Hospital.” Yes, it’s 17 minutes long and worth every minute of your time. She is amazing. Because she speaks the truth, a truth we all need to hear, even if we are not quite ready to acknowledge it yet. (more…)
Channeling my inner Georgia O’Keeffe
I would love to be able to paint a flower in the manner of Georgia O’Keeffe. Actually I’d be happy to paint anything in any manner at all, but that’s a blog post for another day. So I have to settle for trying to take photos of flowers with my macro setting, although I do not have an official macro lens. Here’s what I got this week: lilies from a bouquet in the kitchen; irises from along our back property line, near the pet graves. (more…)
The yin and yang of me
I was walking through my kitchen at one point and saw the two items below sitting there on the table, one on top of the other, and I realized that this brief snapshot of one tiny aspect of my life really says so much about me. I dare you to figure me out.
