I’m experimenting a bit with the format of these posts, paying attention to how the image and text look together. Thanks for your patience as this journey through Seven Years of Wonder unfolds.

2020
a glimpse and gift beyond measure from the Waimea Valley on Oahu
It’s a little thing,
really, to look up, see more.
Communion awaits.

2019
I’ll be away from my paints for the next couple weeks. I may go through withdrawal.
I’ll be back… just like Spring.
2019

Perhaps that could be called “flow steppin’.”
“…surrendering to that which is, and saying yes, you begin to feel free and open. A new sense of well-being sets in when you know you are on your path.” —Gena Davis, YogaMass: Embodying Christ Consciousness
“Opening to the sacred is a profound,life-changing process. It frees enormous energy that needs to be channeled back out into the world in service.” —Lauren Artress
2018


2017
“[C]reative work requires a loyalty as complete as the loyalty of water to the force of gravity.” ~Mary Oliver, Upstream
“God created things that create themselves in ever-new life forms.” ~Richard Rohr
2016

“Ahhh … little ship
You’re getting away from me
When will you come and pass before me?
Because I want to wait for you here, in this place.
Please … tell me when you will come.”
~Sister Nurhayati Silalahi, Huria Kristen Batak Protestan, Indonesia
“And I saw the river over which every soul must pass to reach the kingdom of heaven and the name of that river was suffering; and I saw the boat which carries souls across the river and the name of that boat was love.”
~St. John of the Cross
2016


2015
another page of notes from the LEAD event with The Work Of The People

2014
Notes from LEAD’s Spiritual Health Retreat in Sept. ’13