I have had the rare opportunity recently of hearing two different friends sing devotional chants that they have written themselves. Lindsay Wilson (musingsofthemaypop.blogspot.com) writes them as she takes walks or meditates or does chores, and will sing one for you a capella any time you ask. She’s completely joyful and
Yesterday I wrote about the song singing over the earth, using Rilke’s words. The feeling from that writing stayed with me all day. Today a lovely woman who regularly comes up to the mountain to do one day retreats with me was here for one of our days together. We talked
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Above the change and the loss,
father and freer,
your singing continues,
god of the lyre.
How can we embrace our sorrows
or learn how to love,
or see what we lose
when we die? Only your song
over the earth
honors our life and makes it holy.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Rilke has long been a favorite poet, and quotes from