Spilled Coffee on Ancient Scrolls
Finding Ways to Live as Humans Fully Alive
In nature, such connections can be found in what the Celts called “thin places.” George MacLeod describes these locations as “the eternal seeping through the physical.” And as a veil dividing heaven and earth as “thin as a gossamer....”
Recently, I met with a journalist from the Roswell Daily Record who wanted to write a story about me. He very much looked the part of a seasoned reporter—rumpled clothes, scruffy beard, weather-worn face, taking notes with a ragged notebook and pen. We sat in my office and had a wonderful conversation for about an …
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In a wonderful book by Alix E. Harrow entitled, Ten Thousand Doors of January, a character explains, “Doors…are change, and change is a dangerous necessity. Doors are revolutions and upheavals, uncertainties and mysteries, axis points around which entire worlds can be turned. They are the beginnings and endings of every true story, the passages between …
But just like in Narnia where it wasn’t good for it to always be Winter and never Christmas. It’s also important to realize that it’s not good for it to always be Summer and never football. We need Winter. We need a time of doing with less.
I think it's always good when we engage in political discussions to put a human face to the people we are talking about. Venantie Uwishyaka was one of my students who escaped genocide and overcame obstacles in Rwanda to come to the United States to get her education. She won all the top academic awards …
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Spilled Coffee on Ancient Scrolls 