Christina Watkins
Poet
My Story
love to walk and hike and dance, listen to music and write poems, to read and go to the movies and attend theatrical or musical productions. I am a life long learner and life long teacher, I hope.
Latest Blogs
Beuchner, Breath, Heartbeat, and The Jesus Prayer
As I look out over the Salish Sea towards the Olympic Mountains of Washington State, I see fewer cargo ships than usual. The Port Workers Union here is on strike. We hear talk that organizations of all kinds everywhere need to be reorganized quickly and wisely to...
Pentecost and the Giving of God’s Holy Spirit
This past Sunday the minister and many members of our congregation wore flame-red shirts or dresses. The banners and hangings at the front of the church were also red. This helped make the service feel like a party, a banquet and a fiesta. The celebration was...
Eastertide
After a well celebrated Easter, many of us hope that we will lightly and also seriously surrender into awareness of our deep oneness with everyone and everything. Billy Collins poem, Aimless Love, playfully dances us into possible scenes of transformed awareness:...