👋 Hey there! Glad to hear the dance breaking didn't keep you from reading 🙂
"When [all else] fails, God gives me a waterway for my soul to flow on." What a great way to phrase it, and so true. I'm right there with you on that. Sometimes there really isn't another way to process things, is there? Who are you reading right now, and who is…
👋 Hey there! Glad to hear the dance breaking didn't keep you from reading 🙂
"When [all else] fails, God gives me a waterway for my soul to flow on." What a great way to phrase it, and so true. I'm right there with you on that. Sometimes there really isn't another way to process things, is there? Who are you reading right now, and who is most inspiring or influencing your writing these days? It's fun to see how waterways might spill into each other.
Generosity and simplification. I love that. To glaze over generosity might be to assume abundance, but to simplify *and* cultivate generosity--that sounds like a true practice. My wife and I are wanting this year to be about tending to what we have and communing more with those around us. I'm going to be thinking on how your pairing of generosity and simplification can help us in this.
Tea! What's your go-to steep? I tend toward chais and chamomile, but am a sucker for a good London Fog any day.
I hope the searching goes well! Job hunting has got to be one of the most spiritually exhausting things there is, right behind sitting in traffic. Personal opinion, obviously.
Yes, so true... To be honest I'd love some suggestions! I grew up on Robert Louis Stevenson and Robert Frost, but then really began experimenting and just writing on my own. It's really been on my to-do list to purchase some poetry books and start cultivating my palette more. I'm starting a list of suggestions by you and others on here, and getting ready to start researching. Gerard Manley Hopkins and Malcolm Guite have me most interested - just gotta pick which collections!
Thank you! Yeah I'm excited about where that journey will take me. I'm so honored it can be of some inspiration to you!
Ooh, loving Good Earth Sweet and Spicy tea, (and it's organic)!
Thank you! Yeah... you got that one right lol. :,D
Taking note of that Good Earth Sweet and Spicy tea 👍
I'm sure there are other great collections for each poet, but I just recently read through "The Gospel in Gerard Manley Hopkins" by Margaret R. Ellsberg, which is a great collection and commentary on (many) selected poems, letters, and sermons of his. Guite's "The Word in the Wilderness" was a helpful exposition for me of many different poetic voices. You didn't mention him, but I also have to recommend Carys Walsh's "Frequencies of God: Walking through Advent with R. S. Thomas." I'll be curious to hear which collections you end up with and enjoy, whether any of these or others!
👋 Hey there! Glad to hear the dance breaking didn't keep you from reading 🙂
"When [all else] fails, God gives me a waterway for my soul to flow on." What a great way to phrase it, and so true. I'm right there with you on that. Sometimes there really isn't another way to process things, is there? Who are you reading right now, and who is most inspiring or influencing your writing these days? It's fun to see how waterways might spill into each other.
Generosity and simplification. I love that. To glaze over generosity might be to assume abundance, but to simplify *and* cultivate generosity--that sounds like a true practice. My wife and I are wanting this year to be about tending to what we have and communing more with those around us. I'm going to be thinking on how your pairing of generosity and simplification can help us in this.
Tea! What's your go-to steep? I tend toward chais and chamomile, but am a sucker for a good London Fog any day.
I hope the searching goes well! Job hunting has got to be one of the most spiritually exhausting things there is, right behind sitting in traffic. Personal opinion, obviously.
Haha, nah, not a big. ;)
Yes, so true... To be honest I'd love some suggestions! I grew up on Robert Louis Stevenson and Robert Frost, but then really began experimenting and just writing on my own. It's really been on my to-do list to purchase some poetry books and start cultivating my palette more. I'm starting a list of suggestions by you and others on here, and getting ready to start researching. Gerard Manley Hopkins and Malcolm Guite have me most interested - just gotta pick which collections!
Thank you! Yeah I'm excited about where that journey will take me. I'm so honored it can be of some inspiration to you!
Ooh, loving Good Earth Sweet and Spicy tea, (and it's organic)!
Thank you! Yeah... you got that one right lol. :,D
Taking note of that Good Earth Sweet and Spicy tea 👍
I'm sure there are other great collections for each poet, but I just recently read through "The Gospel in Gerard Manley Hopkins" by Margaret R. Ellsberg, which is a great collection and commentary on (many) selected poems, letters, and sermons of his. Guite's "The Word in the Wilderness" was a helpful exposition for me of many different poetic voices. You didn't mention him, but I also have to recommend Carys Walsh's "Frequencies of God: Walking through Advent with R. S. Thomas." I'll be curious to hear which collections you end up with and enjoy, whether any of these or others!
Oh ok! Thank you! I'll definitely have to check those out!