Acts of Hope

This essay was published nine years ago in the "Proclaiming Gospel  Justice" section of the late lamented magazine The Witness ...

   

As some readers of this blog know, I have very recently moved back to Boston after seven and a half years in North Carolina preceded by a de...

There's still room! This Fragile Earth, Our Island Home: An Ecological Spirituality of Lament and Hope a weekend retreat-conferen...

I have been in and out of town, partly for work and partly for the first real summer vacations (yes, plural) I have had in years. I have be...

March 29.

Imbolc. Soft rain. The earth smells like earth. Daffodil shoots a few hours before the rain. February 1, 2011. Photo by Jane Redmont.

One of my favorite Pete Seeger songs, written by David Mallett: The Garden Song Photo: Sugar Creek Township , Greene County, Ohio

Photo: Hubbard Brook [New Hampshire] Ecosystem Study

The butterflies are plentiful -- four in one small patch of phlox this afternoon. There is also at least one local hummingbird (I keep wanti...

Saturday was also the day of the first figs. The house I rent has a biblical back yard: a vine and two fig trees! The figs are now ripe, m...

Inside the house, Jane continues to write and edit and pace the floor and +Maya sleeps, plays, and pesters Jane for treats, but only when Ja...

And finally caught an open-winged photo!

 Photos taken at home today, again with the BlackBerry.       Took several of the tomatoes and even without artificial light they...