The forty-five poems in this volume are about leaving the familiar, walking into a new landscape, and returning to find that the old neighborhood we left behind appears to be the same, but how we see it will never be. And that, changes everything. Three years ago, I walked the French countryside from Paris to Chartres. I was leaving and returning at the same time, leaving my current home to return to my ancestral roots. It was with great excitement that I embarked on this adventure. I would be walking in the authentic ways of the generations that preceded me. Knowing there was more this journey still had to reveal, I signed up for another week of walking in France in May 2009. Under the weight of my backpack, more serious lessons shed light on who I was, who I was not, and who I might become. A shift was occurring in both my body and my inner spiritual terrain, and there was nothing I could do to alter its ́ momentum. Change happens. The experiences of both pilgrimages ultimately led me back to myself. This book is poetry from the path...my actual walking experiences and the lessons that life had in store for me.
The forty-five poems in this volume are about leaving the familiar, walking into a new landscape, and returning to find that the old neighborhood we left behind appears to be the same, but how we see it will never be. And that, changes everything. Three years ago, I walked the French countryside from Paris to Chartres. I was leaving and returning at the same time, leaving my current home to return to my ancestral roots. It was with great excitement that I embarked on this adventure. I would be walking in the authentic ways of the generations that preceded me. Knowing there was more this journey still had to reveal, I signed up for another week of walking in France in May 2009. Under the weight of my backpack, more serious lessons shed light on who I was, who I was not, and who I might become. A shift was occurring in both my body and my inner spiritual terrain, and there was nothing I could do to alter its ́ momentum. Change happens. The experiences of both pilgrimages ultimately led me back to myself. This book is poetry from the path...my actual walking experiences and the lessons that life had in store for me.
This collection of stories and poems from the writers of Sacred Center are real stories about our real lives and lived experiences. We’ve been gathering every Thursday morning for the past twelve years in a little cabin in the countryside of Maurice, La. We gather, through centering prayer and ritual, to nurture our individual spiritual lives as well as one another. We come from various backgrounds, cultures, religions, and ethnicities. We are nurses, teachers, artists, writers, mothers, grand-mothers, and caregivers; but once our labels dissolve, we are essentially seekers of sisters who are attentive to the power of the Spirit within. Sacred Center has become a sacred vessel where deep and profound transformation can occur. These stories are sacred to this circle of women, so “care for them and give them away where they are needed,” writes author, Barry Lopez. As you drink deeply and slowly from the stream of our lives, allow it to enter you. May it water your own life and leave you thirsting for more.
Out of the Kiln: Vessels of Hope is a collection of poetry embodying a journey of personal transformation, from the emptiness of loss to the light of hope. Seventy-five poems are contained in three parts; wholeness, brokenness, and opennessconveying shifts in the movements that shape our lives. Wholeness is the essence of the soul, while brokenness and openness are changing seasons of the heart. These poems are reflections of the fullness of life, as well as the challenges that give reason to pause; and at times, bring about turnings in different directions, and sight, into new ways of seeing.
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