Jeff B. and I had lunch at 9 Tastes (he was a big fan), and since he has the day off today he offered to walk with me back to the bridge (this was about 2pm ( Read more... )

( joy sadhana - Saturday )

On Friday I posted a link to "We Are Young" by Fun, featuring ft. Janelle Monáe to facebook, saying, "I don't really love this video, but the chorus has been recurrently playing in my brain for some time. (Happy almost Pentecost?)"

We are young / so let's set the world on fire...It felt too warm today for a long-sleeved shirt, and I don't love the ( Read more... )

"Joy Sadhana is a daily practice in the observation of joy."
-mylittleredgirl [ more info]
"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up." --Anne Lamott

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In the car ride out to retreat, Betsy said she thought I was trained as a "lay minister," that she thinks of me as like a "spiritual leader." I was really touched. I'm used to the "are you, or have you ever been, in seminary?" question because of how much I engage with church/theology ... but I live in my head, and so the stuff that's much more ( Read more... )