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Nature/Creation

Tired of All the Noise?

December 28, 2014 by David Anderson 5 Comments

We expect monks and mystics to tell us how important silence is. Gordon Hempton is neither of those. He is an acoustic ecologist, someone who studies the sound of the natural world and seeks to preserve it. In his book, One Square Inch of Silence, Hempton says there are less than a dozen places left […]

Filed Under: Awareness, creation, Daily Practice, Listening, Nature/Creation, Now/ the Present, Prayer/Meditation, Silence, Uncategorized

Lessons in Stone

September 8, 2014 by David Anderson 13 Comments

If you want to know what beauty is and how it is created in this life, build a simple stone wall. When I decided to build two low stone walls on either side of the driveway into our home in Pennsylvania, I went in search of stone. I wished for a truck that would drop […]

Filed Under: creativity, Nature/Creation, Patience, work

Raids on the Unspeakable

August 28, 2014 by David Anderson 7 Comments

One of the gifts of vacation is to change up one’s prayer ritual. Normally, Pam and I sit for prayer in a corner of our bedroom. There are two chairs, a small table for an oil lamp, a few sacred books, and a timer that sounds a Tibetan prayer bell when our orison is over. […]

Filed Under: Awareness, creation, Daily Practice, Nature/Creation, Now/ the Present, Prayer/Meditation

Helen Keller and F-a-l-l

October 21, 2013 by David Anderson 5 Comments

Where I live, the trees are in beautiful death swoons, immolating in falling flames of red and gold, orange and brown. Last week, after I finished my morning run I walked the rest of the way home. A few feet from the front door I noticed—the glory all around me! How had I run through […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Daily Practice, Nature/Creation, Now/ the Present, Seeing

The Charlie Brown Burning Bush

August 23, 2013 by David Anderson 9 Comments

I love to run in new places. At home I run the same loop—it takes me down to Long Island Sound and it’s beautiful, but I know it so well that I can almost run it blind. This morning I am running in Knoxville, Tennessee, where my father lives. I am a little stiff. My […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Gratitude, Nature/Creation, Now/ the Present, Seeing

I Am Also a Bird

June 17, 2013 by David Anderson 3 Comments

This morning, sipping my coffee, glancing out the window, I see a simple sparrow on the deck railing. Then in an instant she darts like an instantaneous thought and is gone. It was perhaps the first time I had seen a bird fly! Of course I have seen it thousands, but in that moment I […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Identity, Nature/Creation, Seeing

Do You Hear What I Hear?

May 20, 2013 by David Anderson 1 Comment

Last Sunday I was greeting people as they walked out of church and into a beautiful spring morning. There were scores of people around me, spirits were high, people were lining up for coffee, laughing and talking. That’s when Melissa walked up to me. I grasped her hand, smiled and said how happy I was […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Nature/Creation, Now/ the Present, Seeing

Old News

May 1, 2013 by David Anderson 4 Comments

Today when I went out to get the paper, I was smitten by the weeping cherry tree in the front garden. Its blossoms were like huge pink puff balls, swaying in a light breeze. It was May Day. The sun was vernally strong. But I was not here to admire a tree. I was on […]

Filed Under: Daily Practice, Nature/Creation, Now/ the Present, Seeing

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