Author Archives: inemountain

From Aristotle to Aquinas to Lewis, we fall at the feet of the beautiful.  Some say that beauty demands form first – that we must behold something in order to know beauty exists.  Others remind us that the forms of beauty we behold point to something else, the thing behind the thing.  It’s not reallyContinue reading “I don’t like you, You’re all I’ve got, I love you”

03 22, 2012 You just said, ‘I am at the middle of Infinity.’ “Oh… Yeah, I did say that.  I guess that’s true.” When I said it on that warm, sunny late-winter day, meeting for a rare in-person conversation with my friend in the park, it seemed unremarkable then, so…well, just an explanation of howContinue reading “At the Middle of Infinity”

03 12, 2012 To my beautiful painted boy: I am not afraid of your fear, Indigo.  I will step into it and meet your fear with trust. “And what about your fear?” you ask. My fear?  I’ll meet that with trust, too, for you and for me. Yours is the domain of Light, lightness ofContinue reading “Shared Dignity”

02 28,2021 It wasn’t just that it was the worst winter storm to hit Texas in decades; it was a storm that obstinately could not be forecasted accurately farther out than about 36 hours.  It began just looking like “real bad weather comin’ in a week or so.”  As it neared, the temperatures in theContinue reading “What She Wore”

02 19, 2021 Nothing is not the absence of something. Nothing has a presence all its own.  It is some thing;  Something that sometimes, when I try to rise above the familiar, moves like an invisible force field out in front of me, shaping my experience around it, Something that sometimes, when I reach insideContinue reading “Nothing is Not the Absence of Something”

02 09, 2021 A new (to me) quote I’m pondering: “It is the time to leave the Flatland of conscienceless and unconscious pursuits.  It is time to move on to something greater and more noble.”  David G. Yurth When I first read this quote, I heard the emphasis on the quality or character of theContinue reading “The Nobility of Poop”

01 31,2021 Something happened with the idea of Speaking Peace to Power, a new and nascent clarity.  I strongly sense that the power of the Divine Feminine and the call to reawaken and re-enliven it throughout humanity is undeniably integral to what’s on offer with ‘Speaking Peace to Power.’  We are being asked to seeContinue reading “Speaking Peace to Power. Remembering”

01 24, 2021 “When you know who you truly are, there is an abiding alive sense of peace. You could call it “joy” because that’s what joy is: vibrantly alive peace. It is the joy of knowing yourself as the very life essence before life takes on form. That is the joy of Being – ofContinue reading “Atonement”

01 24, 2021 Sometimes when I look up from the sink after washing my face and see her in the mirror, see how much older she is than I am, I think it’s time to move on from this interminable quest for work, a quest that has become so familiar it feels like home.  WorkContinue reading “Resignation”