Tuesday -- "We live like ill-taught piano students," Robert Capon wrote. "We are so afraid of the flub that will get us in dutch, we don't hear the music, we only play the right notes." This week we’re talking about Robert's paradigm shift; what happens when we embrace the music."Years ago, I had…
Tuesday -- What is honored will be cultivated, Plato reminds us.Honoring means, quite literally, to weigh heavy. To give regard. I pay attention and in so doing, give this moment a name. So. This week is about the invitation to…
Tuesday -- Today is the fourth day of Christmas. And in this week before the New Year, time to tidy up or rearrange, or get snowed in, or have your flight cancelled, or find yourself quarantined from Covid exposure. Yes,…
Tuesday -- This week, we’re talking about the invitation to wake up. And Advent is "awakened waiting," which involves being roused, being shaken up. You see, Emmanuel, God-with-us, gets it. Everything human and the permission to live awake.And how if…
Tuesday -- "You know Dad," 10-year-old Zach is talking with his mouth brimful of cereal, "I think my life has been pretty full.""Really?" I say to my son."Yeah. I mean, think about it. I have actually held a Serval Cat.…
Tuesday -- In Sabbath Moment last week, we used the metaphor of the artist and being tethered to that authenticity given to our childhood. And how life knocks it out of us. How we become untethered from that which grounds…
Tuesday -- I lived in my Vashon island home for about 20 years. And the garden took its time (something about the gardener’s procrastination, just sayin’), which meant that for a few years, behind my house was a large hole.…
Tuesday -- In the Gospel of John, Jesus encounters a man who has been lying on a mat for 38 years--with a physical disability--waiting to be healed. Jesus asks him a simple question, "Do you want to get well?"So. Let’s…
Tuesday -- Every once in a while (and I’m not always sure what triggers it), I give in to my broken places. Meaning I assume that the label of “broken” is the only truth about who I am. And I…
Tuesday -- This week, our invitation is from the movie Mao to Mozart.Isaac Stern stops a young student (playing her violin skillfully), and says with his enigmatic smile, "Okay. Now. Sing the beginning to me.""Don't be afraid," Stern says gently.…