mjae

One M's Musings and Occasional Insights

Sunday, October 07, 2007

Wedding Vows

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Eric & I got married last Saturday, Sept. 29, 2007. I still can't bring myself to tell the whole story -- Friday night welcome dinne...

A Philosophy of Connection & Autonomy

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Ever since flirting with being an Objectivist my first year of college, I've been fascinated with the idea of philosophy. I wanted to k...
Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Voces Book - coming this Spring!

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This is the cover for the Voces Program Anthology coming out from UNM Press this Spring. I am sooooo excited!
Monday, September 24, 2007

Dare to (Just) Be

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Realize the strength in weakness in the space between stronger forces. You do not need to be the mountain or the man rolling the boulder up ...
Friday, August 24, 2007

Thought 3 - Visions by William C. Martin

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A wise [planner] does not inspire people with grand visions for the visions will become [illusions]. A prudent [teacher] will not call atten...

Thought 2 - Priorities, by William C. Martin

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To consider your preaching of more importance than the opening of a flower is to leave the narrow path. To value certain appointments on you...

Thought 1 - The Word by William C. Martin

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You are a minister of the Word but not of words. The Word was in the beginning before words and beyond words. And whether they weave sophist...
Friday, August 10, 2007

Things I Still Want to Be

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I've found out that I'm going to have my name on not one but two books coming out next Spring from UNM Press. Both poetry anthologi...

Two Countries - Naomi Shahib Nye

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Skin remembers how long the years grow when skin is not touched, a gray tunnel of singleness, feather lost from the tail of a bir...
Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Bosque Meditation

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We are cotton blowing in the winds of time atoms with empty centers spinning through space lending electrons to those we touch. We buzz thro...
Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Communing

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Voces has started up again, the creative writing class I help teach at the National Hispanic Cultural Center the month of June. This year, I...
Monday, April 23, 2007

Back Bending

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“A life develops in spirals: It always passes through the same points, but at different levels of integration and complexity.” – Jean-P...
Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Passover - Lynn Unger

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They thought they were safe that spring night when they daubed the doorways with sacrificial blood. To be sure, the angel of death passed th...
Friday, March 23, 2007

Comings

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Life heats up again, and now it's about words and how they string together to spell community. On the burner are books -- compiling book...
Friday, March 09, 2007

From Childhood to Here

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It was a time when solitude grew on me grew me like the breeze blows on seedlings kindling them skyward. The sadness weighed me ...
Thursday, March 01, 2007

Commitment Sunday

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Forgive me the repetition, but I wanted to post the "pulpit editorial" [oh boy...] I gave last Sunday. It was a hit. I have to s...
Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Space-time Jello Joy

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Since the universe wriggles like space-time jello, we two carrot sticks puddle somewhere in the vicinity of Mars, meeting on t...
Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Growth & Changes

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I've been silent for a while. Lots of internal and external changes that I wanted to sit quietly and feel. Sometimes it feels like ice ...
Monday, November 20, 2006

Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

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Oh my . I've found the poet that fuses physics and spirituality in an intricate dance. I'm so infused with spirit, I think this is ...
Sunday, November 12, 2006

Naming God

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Having come full circle on "going to church," I find myself trying again to name the thing that I'm once again admitting to my...
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