For those of you wondering how long this will be, the title of my speech is, “14,000 Embarrassing Things Levi Could Have Said, But Didn’t”….and it will still be shorter than Mr. Reidt’s farewell speech
Allow me to return to a different metaphor for the imagination. Remember the tomato plants? Let’s imagine that we are plants. Let’s imagine that what we do and feel every day, all day, is the
Winter is best for breaking bones. Cold weather numbed the senses and so they waited. When winter arrived, the mother took her four-year-old daughter into the back bedroom where a basin of herbs was
The more healthy the imagination, the more it sees the world as it really is: enchanted with the divine presence. Like harvesters, we walk the fields of this world and look for the marks of
Yesterday was bleak, even bleaker than the day before precisely because it was the day after. And dreary days of loneliness loomed ahead of us. Yesterday was bloated with grief, An abscess in the soul
The abundant life is the captivated life, the full life, the good life. The captivated life is the Godward life where God is the fixed point of the healthy imaginative vision. Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1328)
Life is about taking risks. By risks I do not mean jumping out of airplanes, playing chicken with a train, biking across America, or even chasing elephants. The risk I suggest is far greater and
Rarely do our actions reflect thoughtful, calculated choice. They are typically the product of how we imagine the world and our place in it. For good or for ill, the imagination and the story it
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