“You take the insights from these epiphanies and you find something in your daily life that you can hook them onto and you pull the rest of your life along” –Stanley Krippner When I build a shrine I am passionate: I learn to follow my gut When I build a shrine I start in a [...]
The found object for a shrine is like the found poem; it is a vertical moment when Spirit presses the every-day open to reveal the sacred in our midst. Spirit is speaking to us all the time. Sometimes it sounds as Mud on Hands. The Blessing of a Bowl –a found poem in Everyday Sacred [...]
“Hiwa-Kai. Please save for the lovely lady who most certainly will return.” This handwritten note was taped on a brown bag behind the counter at Peet’s. I had made a quick–possibly desperate–run for coffee Sunday morning when I discovered we had none for breakfast. Hiwa Kai? I knew that was no coffee name, as I [...]
