The Natural World As Spiritual Guide- Christine Valters Paintner “How necessary it is for monks to work in the fields, in the sun, in the mud, in the clay, in the wind: these are our spiritual directors and our novice-masters.” — Thomas Merton, The Sign of Jonas...
Re-Pairing Opposites- Jan Phillips “The quality of true genius is the ability to hold two contradictory thoughts simultaneously without losing your mind.” —Charles Baudelaire I’m a photographer. I‘ve been looking through the lens of a camera for fifty years, and...
Are You Cheating Your Children?- Polly Young-Eisendrath Today’s parents are too often fed fictions of parental “love.” Most of us think of love in terms of the comfort, passion, closeness, or tenderness it will bring. We imagine the enjoyment of...
Turning the Pandemic Into Poetry- An Interview with Sapphire SAPPHIRE Sapphire is the author of two bestselling novels, Push and The Kid. Push was made into the major motion film Precious, which received the Academy Award for Best Screenplay and Best Supporting...
Ghosts- A Poem by Sapphire Ghosts by Sapphire Ghosts There are thirteen windows in this room.I see the tops of trees and sky, my parentsrun thru my mind; my fatherscurrying like a mouse. My mother is sitting. Why have I comehere, and what do their ghostswant with me....
