Month: September 2013

Cozy or claustrophobic? Efficient or cramped? Organic or utterly disorganized?

How does the idea of living in such close proximity to your neighbors feel to you?

Stunning plumes of spray happen when the ocean crashes up against a rocky shoreline. While coming to rest on a soft, sandy beach is a lot more pleasant, we are often at our most impressive when we run up against the hard places.

When has running up against a hard place brought out the best in you?

What we think of as a mushroom or toadstool is merely a fruiting body for the real plant whose tiny tendrils weave outward in a broad, unseen net. What we see of anyone’s life is really just the public face that fails to show more than a tiny fraction of who they are.

What do you wish more people recognized about you and your unseen life?

Today marks the end of summer, the point in time when the light and the dark are in equal balance before beginning the long slide toward dark and winter. Unless you’re in the Southern Hemisphere, in which case it’s the long slide toward light and summer.

What do you look forward to in the upcoming season? What will you miss from the season past?

The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.
— Frederick Buechner

How has your life touched someone who was surprisingly distant from you?