My work for many years has been to pay attention to the world and to imagine possibilities. I write. I gather people around the questions that help us live with greater presence and connection to the holy, to one another, and to the living world.
On the journey from journalism to books to poetry, my questions have migrated inward. I am endlessly interested in the connection between our creative vision and contemplative insights and the lives that give voice to them.
These days, I am listening to what can only be heard far from the world’s Babel. Conversations with ancestors and winter fields, back streets and the shops no one bothers to visit anymore. Children in libraries, hungry for books.
Questions I am living with –
If these questions speak to you, I’d love to have you join the conversation.
Books
Thirty Years of
Paying Attention
From reporting on homeless women in cities across America to searching for wholeness at home, each book asks how we belong to one another. Tap a cover to read more.
Ways to walk together
Read, Write and
Reflect Together
Reading, gathering together for conversation, contemplative writing groups or sharing poetry, join me on the path of intention.
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