Playing In Fire
Thunder Storm over the Aiguiiles de ChamonixOriginally uploaded by WhiteGoldWielderAbove trees. The highest green is alpine grass. Soon enough, my hair is standing on end like that grass. A surprise lightning storm crawled over the ridgeline. In the midst of the storm I not only feel the hairs on my arms stand up, I can feel the

Beyond Survival
Schafe am Morgen - explodingOriginally uploaded by publik_oberberg"The world and it's strategies may help you to survive for a long time, but they cannot help you live because the world is not the source of its own life, let alone yours." - Nouwen.

Moments from a Wedding
Don't give me people who WANT to dance.Originally uploaded by trapezemikeRecently, I was at my first wedding in two years, oddly enough at the same location as the last one - which is pretty cool because it is on a lake surrounded by mountains. There are

...that doesn't love a Wall
Beyond the wallOriginally uploaded by Giuseppe Bognanni“Before I built a wall I’d ask to knowWhat I was walling in or walling out,And to whom I was like to give offense.Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,That wants it down…” –

Words by which we Live
what are word for? Originally uploaded by Darwin Bell. There are words that say more about who I am that I don’t fully believe and may take a lifetime to accept. And there are words that lie more about who I am that are easier to believe than the others… and it may take a lifetime to get them out of me. Awhile ba