Another writing prompt from my class (Week 4 of The Spiral Way: Celtic Spirituality and the Creative Imagination at abbeyofthearts.com) was: “What is your inner source of orientation? What is your inner compass?” So I begin to wonder....Is it to face east toward Maine? The forest? The lake? The trees? What is my inner compass?? [...]
I've been taking an online class on spirituality and poetry (The Spiral Way: Celtic Spirituality and the Creative Imagination - abbeyofthearts.com). It was a four week class and the final class was a doozy with several writing exercises. The subject was pilgrimage, specifically a form of Irish pilgrimage called Peregrinatio. Irish monks would be prompted by [...]
I am reading the book Gently Awakened by Sara Joseph about the intersection of faith and art/creativity, about giving it all to God and letting God work through your art. In the chapter titled “The Precision of Timing," she talks about her dream of having an art studio. When she finally has one and is first setting [...]
