thresholds
I am waiting for a flight that will return me to Florida, a place I now call home. It’s confusing in that I am leaving a place that I called home for 43 years. When people ask me where I am from, I often distinguish between where I am from and where I live, depending … More The Place We Call Home
There is something exhilarating about the first day of summer! I think it’s all that light at the beginning and end of the day. I live in Florida now, where we enjoy summer weather for more than half of the year, yet the first day of summer still signals a transition to more relaxing days. … More First Day of Summer
These reflections are drawn from my journals of 1999 and 2000. I was in my early 50’s when I made this particular job transition from a small Catholic college, where I was being considered for tenure and full professor, to a prestigious engineering school, where I would be in a faculty development support position. During … More The Threshold Between Jobs
You may be wondering where I have been. It’s almost two weeks since I posted anything. I would like to say that I was celebrating the Christmas Season right up to its conclusion with the Lord’s Baptism last Sunday. The truth is that I have been stuck in that liminal space that transitions us from … More January Malaise
I learned a new word this summer – liminal – as in liminal space. As so often happens, once I learned its meaning, I noticed the term in several books that I had been reading. And, about that time, I received an email from a friend in which he used liminal space in ordinary conversation. … More Liminal Space
The intersection of faith and life.
Photography and Writing as Spiritual Practices
Photography and Writing as Spiritual Practices
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