Shouldering is a way of moving upwards, out of the darkness and into the light. Not unlike human shoulders that shrug and scrunch, sometimes toward the ears and sometimes back down toward the belly, when a vegetable is good and ready it will scrunch and shoulder toward the sky.
This Eastertide I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to live in the relentless goodness of Easter Sunday, not only on the day of Easter, but in all the fifty days that follow.
Today we celebrate the commemoration of Saint Hildegard of Bingen, a woman offering so many gifts to the church that they are hard to list.
Lately, I’ve gotten into gardening. We are lucky enough to live in a home on a church property, with places around the property where we can garden.
This end-of-year sprint is familiar territory for all of us. And still, every year it rolls around and surprises us.
There’s more than one way to make your family’s Advent wreath.
Not long ago, I was a farmer. These days, it seems like a victory just to get dinner on the table.
As we see the green Sundays of Ordinary Time stretching out before us, I am so very ready to focus on slow growth.
