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"And I said to my soul be still.

Wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing;

Wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing;

There is yet faith,

But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

Wait without thought, for you are not yet ready for thought:

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing."


from "East Coker" by TS Eliot

Humility – pulling up to a Monastery and choosing to simplify my life for a few days was scary last year, and yet this year felt like a welcome relief. I have a tendency to pile things on my plate, to add mischief and misery to a life that is pretty well blessed. I work hard, I volunteer, I read, I write, I do art, I decorate for Christmas, I spend a lot of time with my family …and I sometimes get all of it tangled up into a big ball of nonsense.



The humility comes in the recognition… Continue

On my final day of giving on this Round I was amazed to find myself giving $5 to a homeless man along the side of the road as I waited at a red light.



Years ago I used to feel very guilty, with all that I had, whenever I saw someone on the road with a sign. Sometimes that guilt compelled me to give them some money. Sometimes it compelled me to go buy them some food.



Yet, today, it was compassion and my own sense of "what can I give in the world?" that inspired me to… Continue

Today the give was money. Not a lot, not tax deductible, not for credit.

Just anonymous giving in the Salvation Army buckets, Scout collections, St. Vincent de Paul Society and extra in the collection basket.

I hesitate blogging about it because the point is no credit. So it's not about that here - it's about noticing that a little bit is enough.