by Amy Martin (c) There is a moment just as you start drifting into sleep when your mind bounces randomly between thoughts in a foggy state, not quite conscious, not quite unconscious. At that ambiguous […]
New Moon Rosh Hashana & Eclipse of the Soul
by Amy Martin (c) We are walking into darkness, ebbing toward winter, exhaling before we take a Solstice pause and begin breathing again into spring’s light. Shadows grow long, in nature and in our hearts. […]
Guerilla Ritual: Olympics’ Opening and Closing Ceremonies
by Amy Martin (c) When the Olympics kick off on February 12, sit back and enjoy the spectacle of guerrilla ritual, the kind you sneak on people by promising entertainment and delivering transformation instead. Nowhere […]
Walking into Darkness
by Amy Martin (c) It is the twilight of the seasons, when we slip betwixt the worlds of light and dark, day and night, warmth and cold. The Sun rises and set slower in the […]
Summer Solstice Sun
by Amy Martin (c) We face the Sun, the warmth caressing our faces carried by particles of photons, vibrating intensely from the heat, that bounce and ricochet off our skin until the photon’s light and […]
The Prayer Tree of Spring
by Amy Martin (c) In my backyard, there is a tree that blooms. When we moved here many years ago, it was lost in the darkness of oaks and cedar elms that grew to tower […]
“Axis Mundi:” a prayer for the inaguration of Barak Obama
“Axis Mundi:” a prayer for the inaguration of Barak Obama, January 20, 2009 I’m part of a panel at the Dallas Morning News called Texas Faith. Each week we reply to a question posed by […]
