End of Summer in the Ecovillage
The following is a guest post from my friend Moses. Hello friends, It’s been a very busy spring and summer here at the Minnesota Ecovillage Project. Since acquiring our parcel of Land in March, we’ve felt the urgency of preparing to spend winter here. When we’re not stuck in the mud we’ve often been…
Come to the River
If get tired of the city, come to the river. There is wisdom here older than anything you can imagine, and deeper than any words.
Summer in the Ecovillage
The story that was just a story six months ago has become a real and living thing, living with the other animals in the woods on a hill of oak and aspen
April in the Ecovillage
It’s April in the Ecovillage. Today we are not in the Ecovillage. Today we are in the city. Soon we will be in the Ecovillage again. We are in the liminal space between Winter Solstice and Summer Solstice — the half-orbit of our Earth that seems to be carrying us into a new world at…
How to Worship the Sun
The sun has been giving me clues. The sun is the primal religion. I have got to start worshipping the Sun.
How to Get to the River
It’s negative eight degrees outside my window. Inside my window a handful of houseplants lean toward the light, despite the frigid temperatures on the other side of the glass. There are oak trees growing in the houseplants, oak trees almost six inches tall, sprouted from acorns buried by squirrels last summer when the houseplants were…
How to Return to the Garden
In the beginning was a garden. Whether we consult religious myths or natural sciences, we can trace the roots of our species to complex ecosystems of biological life pouring forth in generative relationships within the web of existence. Humans, like all other life-forms, once participated in these ecosystems according to the constraints of their environments;…
Don’t Help My Unbelief
I want you to know that unbelief in God is not a sin. I want you to know that atheism is not a bad word.
Summer’s End (August)
Since I left God the Father I have fallen in love with the earth that has always been my home. Allowing myself to feel this way about the reality around me has done more for the God-shaped hole in my heart than my Father in Heaven ever did. But…
Summer’s End (July)
Today I feel the ache of summer’s mortality, as July blazes out in a crescendo of sun and heat and humidity and I can feel in my skin that suddenly more summer is behind us than in front of us. The gift of awareness comes with the awareness of death and this gift is harder…
i make the river sing
This is now, now. This is a new year. These are the first words of a new year. Time is meaningless, and so is existence, but I am ensnared in both, god in skin trapped in meaningless time and meaningless existence and craving meaning I make it myself. don’t you see? the craving of meaning…
Why Won’t God Fucking Do Something?
It’s an amazing, intricate, world full of suffering and death. It’s not enough. But it’s all we have.
How Firm a Foundation?
If I had been able to really believe, none of this would have happened. If I had ever been able to experience the God they spoke of in the way they spoke of Him, I probably would have been satisfied. If I had heard the still small voice of the Divine without also hearing the…
Always Has Been
last night i had a dream / vision wherein I briefly escaped this time/space-bound reality and saw the gods and us and everything floating in galaxies + grids. “come out here and dance with us,” the gods beckoned. I looked, and behold, under everything, gods dancing on dark waters, an eternal empty stage, a void,…
The Grace of Insignificance
recently a few folks have emailed me to tell me that they perceive me as sad, lost, hurting, or broken because of how i have been playing with language around ideas of god, faith, and existence. this always catches me by surprise, because i am happy + at peace, more than I’ve been in a…
