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The Golden Rule
Old Ebenezer Chapel The findings and prospective findings of the Vera Rueben telescope are astonishing. The sea of stars and galaxies is large beyond our understanding. We seek words which can help us know what we yearn to do that we may live in peace and astonishment...
Poem Pieces for Grief and Hope
Photo credit: Jennifer Watkins We are in grief as well as expectation. The words for which Pope Francis is most famous are, “todos, todos, todos,” which means everyone, everyone, everyone, and, at the same time, everything, everything, everything. I think this means,...
Late Spring 2025
My husband and I are on vacation experiencing wine tasting in Avignon. Mistral winds blow cold and fallout from the actions of seemingly heartless leaders across the world swirl around us and within us. What counsel will help us now? Rilke, one of the greatest poets...
From the Beginning
Written by Christina Watkins. Last month we were on vacation in Nayarit, Mexico. The photo which my husband, David, took of this Snowy Egret reminds me of the holiness of the lives and homes of everyone. He stays very still on his golden slippers until he sees food...
After Christmas
This year, twice in the week before Christmas, our outdoor Christmas lights, which are set to go on at dusk, flashed on before ten in the morning and stayed on all day. It has been a dark, damp and cool December. The tension of this time broke as the days of Christmas...
Up From the Deep
Last week, I saw a video on PBS, on the program Nature. It is also on YouTube and is named Befriending a Sperm Whale. We enter the story of Patrick Dykstra, a videographer, and a female sperm whale. We see them hanging vertically, face to face, in deep water. Patrick...