Not for publication

This is a journal — not a book.

A private corner in a crowded room.

*Early entries live in the archive

  • be still and know

  • For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

    T.S. Eliot

  • Adventus

    “Brothers and sisters,

    In this time of advent, let us be shaken from our stupor and let us awaken from our slumber.


    Let us ask ourselves: Am I aware that I am living? Am I alert? Am I awake? Do I recognize God’s presence daily? Or, am I distracted?”

    — Pope Francis

  • As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to express it.

    Brother David Steindl-Rast

  • “I would tell that version of myself that it’s her job to feel everything, see everything — that she will never know everything, but she will try. What matters is how you make people feel. I’d tell her that the people you do this with, and how you define what it means to live a beautful life, matter more than anything.”

    Maggie Rogers

Still Life

A collection of short essays and vignettes that observe everyday life with gratitude and humor. The goal is not to examine or interrupt moments with meaning, but to notice and acknowledge. A season ushering in stillness. Stillness is not absence.

God moves in mysterious ways. The promise: never will I leave you, never will I forsake you, never will I betray you. Meno.

The vision of a still life: a release from pressure, from the need to arrive anywhere at all. There is no danger. There is Space to rest without reaching to define. A gentle knowing, held in common, that all shall be well.