The introduction to nature–mountains, lakes, hiking, creek stomping, etc.–started early for this city girl. Biennially, we traveled cross country to see Grandma during Dad’s summer break. After a few days with her, we went camping in the mountains giving Grandma a little break (at 84 years old, she was not used to the volume that… Continue reading Surely, the Presence of the Lord is in this place.
When I was very young, I was always incredibly excited by nature and loved this season of spring most of all. My fundamentalist “Christian” upbringing somewhat repressed this spirituality but it remained an essential part of me, demanding attention but often squashed down till finding happy expression in my discovery of Celtic Christianity. My mind… Continue reading Creation groans…..
I love (biblical) Hebrew. It’s all Jewish-Friend’s fault – she stayed with me for a weekend and taught me the Hebrew alphabet song and I was hooked. Actually I love most languages and I’m especially addicted to the ‘linguist’s crack-cocaine’ moment when, thinking in more than one language at a time, a new level of… Continue reading Are we fragments or are we blood? A linguistic theology of Earth.
