Just a brief check-in ( Read more... )

Tonight's been a bright spot.  I convinced my mom to take me to yoga class with my favorite yoga teacher, Joan.  I didn't expect any big moment of connection, just a good solid class and a chance to remember some of the good things about last year to try to counteract the flood of memories I've been swimming around in the last few days.  But when I ( Read more... )

 I was reading over posts from this time last year, and I realized a few things ( Read more... )

 I am listening to a beautiful recording of the St. Petersburg Choir singing "Chants of Orthodox Easter," which is certainly not correct liturgically but is very peaceful for the morning ( Read more... )

 I'm realizing that I feel what I always feel in December--I'm aching for stillness and quiet.  The weather, the sentiments of the church year, the wind-down of a school semester... I always feel this way, although I'm not always so exhausted.  I am wishing for a retreat.  The second year at l'Arche, I got to go on the Advent retreat to the ( Read more... )

 Good job, me ( Read more... )

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Instructions: Copy this list. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt.

( it's a list of 100 books... takes up a lot of space! )

Oh man was it ever dark this morning! I was having trouble getting started ( Read more... )

Today felt like a good day ( Read more... )

This list is in no particular order and probably contains some things you know already ( Read more... )