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The Seed

“The seed holds a very great secret—it never gets old. It is the eternal YES to life.” – Anat Vaughan-Lee Join us at Santa Sabina Center for a Writing Retreat with Kim Stafford: “Your Archive of the Unspoken,” from April 20 – 23, 2023.… Continue Reading “The Seed”

Advent Waiting for What We Will Never See

Let us plant dates even though those who plant them will never see them. We must live by the love of what we will never see. This is the secret discipline. It is a refusal to let the creative act be dissolved away in… Continue Reading “Advent Waiting for What We Will Never See”

Wisdom from Walden

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling.  – Henry David Thoreau, Walden