There is a way for the world to be in the future – to embrace being – and really it starts now. It is the way of creativity or creation. Essentially it is the only way: either our planet takes up its place as a shining star in space or it becomes, over time, a [...]
Continue Reading...It is the time of year when the hosts of Persephone begin to rise out of the earth. The time of mercy and unseen justice. I stand here a penitent. The sins I have committed lie buried deep in the earth. I have to find them again and color them green. The [...]
Continue Reading...From one point of view dreams, symbols, imaginings – for example, poems or paintings – are figures, shape-shifted from our daily lives. A poem, then, might reshape a lost love affair; a painting, a phase in life. Psycho-analysis might justifiably point out the various sublimations taking place in our thoughts and images. Dreams are famous [...]
Continue Reading...A vast wind, tiny solace; there are angels in the threads of my coat. Landar © landar 2011. All rights reserved
Continue Reading...We are all such small, unmodelled things – but at the same time we are equal to the millenia. We feel so minute and powerless in the face of world changes and yet the great cycles of time bow to us in the course of their turning. This is what it means to be human. [...]
Continue Reading...Poverty, chastity, obedience – we know these words as evangelical counsels or as religious vows: the vow of poverty, the vow of chastity, the vow of obedience.But apart from their significance as monastic vows, their place in the theology of the cross, they have a modern spiritual significance which even nature and the changing season [...]
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