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for Sandy and Pat and all who are stuggling with cancer--love and healing grace
GreenSpirit - the Association for Creation Spirituality in the UK
And is "normality" what you are seeking?
all those elephants--a guru would scold us
for letting them have their way with our silence
but the soul is ready to play
circus performers juggle jelly beans and laugh
when we say: empty mind, empty mind.....
Hello, Bob-
Is this daydream rooted in a love for drumming?
Michel and I want to buy drums, andhe has a dream of getting 350 drummers together in September.
Do you know much abut drums and what we should look for?
Hi Harmony-- I guess it's time I join this discussion!
I try to be inclusive and invitational in my leadership.
This creates a circle of discussion, as we move around and around, leaving space for each person to speak as they wish.
It can be quit...
How Communities are transformed by women leadership
It is less intellectual and more intuitive; less hierarchic more relational?
Thank you, Nancy, for a behind-the scenes insight into the Demeter-Persephone story. The servant archetype/role is one that women have been put in throughout history. I love the way this archetype can be subversive, overturning systems when the le...
ahh, Carl--that's why we need poets, to get past the logic...
what wisdom there is in 'the word made flesh"--flesh to get us into the body and out of the head
but blessed is the head as well
so, my fellow "rev"--surely reverence is about humility,...
I am drawn to the shape-shifting of shamans to become "other" --
creatures, words, sounds, transversals
moving us to become more ourselves
by seeing our stories
from a different angle
(or is it, a different angel?)
whoooooo tooooo!
Wendy
Joy is contagious--thanks for sharing yours! And inviting us to see too.
Wendy
(ahhh. watery eyes. thank you.)
Early early, while it was still dark... Before the sun is up on Easter morning, people in Quebec go to streams and rivulets to collect "l'eau de Paques"Easter water. (This is a tradition)
This water is believed to have healing properties. People ...
Weee wee wee all the way home....
I wrote that comment long ago, as a blog. I am so glad you have found it!
In the meantime, I have been on a great picnic....just joking.
All this conversation about blogs/discussions/ comments reminds me of any ch...
That's because they're not blogs written here; they're linked externally with RSS.
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Feminine Leadership Co...
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Death, an original ble...
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Spiritwind (Auburn & T...
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PRAYER REQUESTS: Holdi...
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- How did you come to discover Creation Spirituality?
- Mystical bears and whimsical prayers
rooted in mountains and rivers
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of spirit, soul, mystery
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healing water from the source
Early early, while it was still dark... Before the sun is up on Easter morning, people in Quebec go to streams and rivulets to collect "l'eau de Paques"Easter water. (This is a tradition)
This water is believed to have healing properties. People collect it to put on a… Continue
Posted on April 14, 2009 at 8:00am — 2 Comments
ordained in the orchard
I spent a summer as a student minister in Nova Scotia. I lived in a small cottage that would be used by the labourers/pickers in the fall. I watched the apple trees from May till August, and felt that they were as much a congregation as the people I met in the church. They we… Continue
Posted on March 6, 2009 at 12:30pm — 6 Comments
words and god
When I say “God”
When I say “God” i imagine.
The word is replete with meanings, loaded into it
by generation after generation trying to contain the mystery.
I see the word, stuffed into the trunk of the car, as the journey of faith begins.
When did the journey become a guilt trip?
The word itself cries out: it has been kidnapped,
tied and bound and stuffed with the other baggage into the car,
as the journey of faith continues.
“Get the map” Get the map!” I hear from the front seat:
The priests… Continue
When I say “God” i imagine.
The word is replete with meanings, loaded into it
by generation after generation trying to contain the mystery.
I see the word, stuffed into the trunk of the car, as the journey of faith begins.
When did the journey become a guilt trip?
The word itself cries out: it has been kidnapped,
tied and bound and stuffed with the other baggage into the car,
as the journey of faith continues.
“Get the map” Get the map!” I hear from the front seat:
The priests… Continue
Posted on February 21, 2009 at 1:42am — 7 Comments
Comment Wall (27 comments)
- At 6:08am on June 4, 2009,
Bob Werme said… - Wendy - depending on the kind of drum your husband is looking to buy, they can be anything from $40 to $100s. Different drums have different purposes. I have Amer-Indian style drums that are played with sticks, West Indian style drums that are played with fingers, and West African style drums played with the whole hand. Most popular are the African djembes. I've found small ones for $40 at local discount department stores. If you're interested in making drums, my friend Dennis Waring has published a book called Making Drums (Sterling 2008, ISBN 1-895569-90-7). It's a beautifully illustrated and detailed description of many styles and how they are made. I'm actually hoping to begin making some drums myself soon.
- At 9:02am on May 8, 2009,
George Polley said… - Hi Wendy,
I'm doing fine; thank you for asking. Feeling in need of a brief vacation (too busy writing & tending to writing-related business), finishing four new Grandfather tales, and keeping up to date on David's condition (his neck surgery is scheduled for Monday). He is apparently unaware of the seriousness of his condition, as he keeps asking the nurses when he can get up and go home, which makes me think his mind isn't all too sharp, as his best friend from years ago also had a spinal cord injury in the same injury & spent the rest of his life in a motorizes wheelchair. So...I still think and pray about all that.
I'm also working on moving my two books into the Japanese market, and am working with a local author (and friend) on that. (Vacation!)
Another gorgeous sunny morning here in Sapporo. I'm not surprised about your brother's employer setting those conditions on his visiting Canada for your father's birthday, as the government is keeping pretty tight restrictions on traveling to and from North America and Mexico.
Hope you and Michel are well. I think of you both often.
Today Aiko and I are going downtown to run some errands. My brother and his wife are in France for two weeks, & send gorgeous photos back. (I'm envious.)
Blessings to you and Michel, Wendy. Good hearing from you. Enjoy the fullness of spring!
George
- At 9:04am on April 21, 2009,
Jacqui Webb said… - With pleasure Wendy. :)
- At 8:14am on April 21, 2009,
George Polley said…
- Thank you, Wendy. I look forward to reading your response, and Michel's, to my two books. I know you'll both enjoy them. Have a good and peaceful rest out at the cottage.
Blessings on you both,
George
- At 1:01pm on April 18, 2009,
George Polley said…
- Hi Wendy,
Some of the crocuses are finished, others are still gathered in little blossoming groups, some all one color, some multicolored, some gathered in large congregations near a stone or other, larger plants that are in bright yellow blossom. Cherry trees are beginning to bloom also. In parts of Japan, there are some huge cherry trees that are 400, 500 years old that are veritable operas of pink; groves of them together look like a vast pink seascape.
Have a wonderful trip, enjoy the reading. I am certainly enjoying spending time in amongst your poems in that marvelous collection of yours. Did you do the drawings? They look a bit like your signature. And the cover -- is that some of Michel's art? It has his character about it. Your poem "Religion lost the Cosmos" reminds me of some of Hafiz's poems.
I just finished reading Khaled Hosseini's "A Thousand Splendid Suns" -- a very powerful, disturbing story of two heroic women, one (Mariam) especially, and of Afghanistan in the past 35+ years of its history.
Have a safe trip; we'll talk next week after you return home.
Blessings on you both
- At 9:14am on April 11, 2009,
jake McArthur said…
- Hi Wendy: i'm one of the GTA CS community and i'm a member of Ruah in Toronto although i don't attend regularly. Just completing my dissertation and graduating in June. One of my formative experiences was spending a week in silence with the monks and chant at Abbaye St. Benoit near Magog. i ditto Grant's comments.
- At 1:00am on April 1, 2009,
Grant Jahnke said… - Hi Wendy, Yes, we do have a "sister circle" in Halifax called "Ruah East" that got started three years ago after I'd led some retreats down there. The story of our evolution as a community has a degree of complexity (and organic simplicity) to it. Would love to talk about it with you at some point. The essential first step is "Yes!" to the call to begin. The Universe (or, as we say, the Ruah) will lead and take care of the "hows" in the most surprising ways. Have you checked out our website? Hope it'll work out that you can come to the Biran Swimme Event in June. Blessings, Grant
- At 10:48am on March 22, 2009,
Rick Kuykendall said… - Thanks for joining Spiritwind! Original blesssings to you, Rick
P.S. I really like your site--poetry, music, and art...
- At 12:50pm on March 18, 2009,
Grant Jahnke said…
- Hi Wendy! Great to hear from another Canuck! I hope to have info on Ruah up on the Communities page in the next couple of days--But in brief, we are a community of about 30 members who have met every Sunday for the past 13 years (and regularly in between in our various leadership circles!) I felt so blessed and privileged during my years at UCS ('99-'03) to have the community to come home to--to share ideas with, try things out on and to create retreats with! In the early days, creation centered spirituality was one of several foundational discourses at the heart of the Ruah community. Since '99 however, it has been *the* central unifying theme of our community life.
Do you ever get to Toronto? If so, give a call. We can get together; There are a number of us UCS types in the vicinity! You can visit Ruah! How far are you from Montreal?
- At 12:25am on March 12, 2009,
Mary Plaster, M.A. said… - Wendy, I continue to enjoy your art and writing. What a wonderful page, thank you for all!
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