29 Sunday Sep 2019
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Cholla at Spur Cross Ranch Recreation Area
Taking a break this week while in Arizona filming videos for an online class to go with a book we’ve just finished, and to attend our daughter’s White Coat Ceremony at Midwestern’s School of Veterinary Medicine.
Here’s a few photos taken while filming.
Sun rising over the ridge at Spur Cross Ranch.
Clouds over Hole in the Rock at Papago Park.
14 Sunday Jul 2019
Posted in Christianity, Poetry, religion, Uncategorized, Wild Goose Festival
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
My intention this week was to run the above poem along with a photo as I was going to be away at the Wild Goose Festival. Imagine my surprise and delight when I found the above right next to the Episcopal tent!
The Wild Goose Festival is an art, music, and story-driven transformational experience grounded in faith-inspired social justice, according to Wikipedia.
The Wikipedia article also states that the festival: “encourages co-creation of music, story, theater, and spectacle, and engagement in a wide variety of robust, respectful conversations with participants and with thought leaders and artists from other communities. Wild Goose is welcoming and hospitable to people of all faiths – or no faith – who join in seeking the common good. It fully affirms and celebrates people of every age, ethnicity, gender, gender expression, sexual identity, education, bodily condition, religious affiliation, and economic background, particularly those who are most often marginalized.
“Wild Goose is rooted in Progressive Christianity, moving beyond belief and centered in justice and compassion, in solidarity with the marginalized and the oppressed. The festival is popular among many involved with the emerging church movement.”
Our Diocese is one of the sponsors of the Episcopal tent. The event hosts more than 5,000 people annually.
While we were there so my husband could preach and celebrate at the Noon Friday Eucharist, the tent stays busy all day long . . .
23 Sunday Dec 2018
Posted in Advent, AdventWord, Episcopal, Photography, Uncategorized
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The challenge continues . . .
December 17–Sing My favorite Advent hymn from which I found the titles for the three books in my fantasy series, The Hallowed Treasures Saga.
December 18–Ancestor The grave of an ancestor in rural Georgia.
December 19–Wash Baptism is “the heavenly washing”.
December 20–Ablaze. This site doesn’t support video, but on this day I posted a short video of a fire blazing in the hearth.
December 21–Sign
December 22–Expect. Expectation of the harvest: an olive tree about to bloom.
16 Sunday Dec 2018
Posted in Advent, AdventWord, Episcopal, Macro photography, Photography, Uncategorized
And the challenge continues:
December 10–Cry
December 11–Grow
December 12–Rough. Macro shot of rose quartz.
December 13–Smooth Macro shot of polished quartz.
December 14–Prune
December 15–Prepare 1928 Book of Common Prayer
December 16–Rejoice St. Photios Greek Orthodox National Shrine in St. Augustine, Florida.
09 Sunday Dec 2018
Posted in Advent, AdventWord, Episcopal, Photography, Uncategorized
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I challenged myself to post a daily black and white photo to Instagram and Twitter to represent the #AdventWord word of the day. Here is Week 1:
December 3–Watch
December 4–Focus
December 5–Night
December 6–Light
December 7–Sprout
December 8–Alert
December 9–Wild
02 Sunday Dec 2018
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The Season of Advent begins today and having just completed the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month ) challenge of writing 50,000 words in a month, I’ve decided to take on another challenge for December:
This challenge will have me posting a photo representing the word of the day (see above) every day in Advent. I have decided that my challenge to myself will be to post a black and white photo of the word every day. As today is the first day of Advent (December 2), I will post my first photo here to represent #Journey:
To find out more or sign up for a daily meditation: #AdventWord
