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The 'More Than This'
In a recent conversation, I heard Dana Ganihar and Baruch Brenner describe prayer as, "where the this meets the more-than-this." I love...

Ali
Aug 1, 20222 min read


Shadows, Reflections
Walking at the water's edge one afternoon, I notice a crow. Having learned surprising things about crows, I have come to love and...

Ali
Nov 24, 20212 min read


Invitation
A few months into my first autumn in Oregon, so much is fresh. My familiars had been the Aspens, the sole proprietors of changing color...

Ali
Oct 29, 20211 min read


Innocent Tempest
All morning there has been talk of a storm coming. The changing sky affirms it. The blue brightness is shifting to a heavy purple/gray. I...

Ali
Oct 25, 20212 min read


Only Seven!
At the end of the work day, Wednesday, I was experiencing a machine-like weariness; disconnected from myself, and from everyone else....

Ali
May 8, 20211 min read


I cant hear you, you're muted!
I have moved from my home of more than 20 years, two miles high in the Rocky Mountains, to the forested edge of the wild Oregon Coast. ...

Ali
Mar 8, 20213 min read
Morning musings
I am reading John O’Donoghue‘s book eternal echoes. “... there is a resonant heart in the depths of silence“ he says this in reference to...

Ali
Jul 19, 20201 min read


Don't Dock Yet!
This morning, I learned that "Quarantine", a term with which we are all becoming familiar, is a shipping term. The word has a root...

Ali
Mar 19, 20203 min read


Emerging from the Cave
It has been so long since I wrote on this blog, I don't remember the "me" who wrote last time. But I do know that I haven't had a way to...

Ali
Mar 2, 20203 min read


The Sincerity of Uncertainty
I am surprised to find the beginning chill of Fall to be comforting. My diagnosis became clear a year ago, as August turned to...

Ali
Sep 15, 20193 min read


I'm here and awake. Just sayin'...
I want to be seen today. Up until now, I have kept my bald head covered, because of the cold, but also because it seemed to say,...

Ali
Jun 17, 20193 min read


shores and open water
I haven't known what to write, and hence have left many questions for my friends and support to guess about. I have been inarticulating...

Ali
Jun 2, 20193 min read


Breathing Room
For three months, I have not had the pleasure of eating food. I have been fed by a feeding tube. I have been able to drink liquids, but...

Ali
May 5, 20192 min read


"From and Into"
I've gotten a few requests this week for an update. It's nice to feel your caring in that request.... a reminder that I am connected in...

Ali
Apr 28, 20192 min read


It was always there
Two weeks ago, this was a stick, a dry branch; brittle, seemingly empty of life after a winter that stripped its essence from view, sent...

Ali
Apr 21, 20192 min read


Crocuses!!
I've found great comfort in the power of Spring. You just cant argue with it! Stepping outside to find these amazing flowers which, by...

Ali
Apr 5, 20192 min read
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