A Week with Mary Oliver — Day 6

Posted on January 25, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

In light of Mary Oliver's death on January 17, let us honor her life and savor her words The Journey One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice-- though the whole house began Read more [...]

The Invitations of Epiphany

Posted on January 7, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

It seems almost constitutionally impossible to be Irish and not be a lover of words and with one side of the family littered with Morans and Linehans, it is understandable that I am and always have been a logophile. When my children were old enough Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 11/13/18

Posted on November 13, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

"Stories give coherence to the confusion of our experience." ~ Karen Armstrong THE SEED OF COMPASSION “Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. . . This is the interrelated structure of reality.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. There Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 6/5/18

Posted on June 5, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Two travelers set out on a pilgrimage from opposite ends of a vast desert. One from the eastern edge heading west and the other from the western edge heading east. One pilgrim set out for a distant town called Happiness that was said to be located Read more [...]

Pilgrim: The Poetic Traveler

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

"The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything."(Philip Cousineau in The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker’s Guide to Making Travel Sacred) There are many metaphors to describe the human Read more [...]

The Road We Follow

Posted on December 12, 2009 by Daniel J. Miller

I have learned by some experience, by many examples, and by the writings of countless others before me, also occupied in the search, that certain environments, certain modes of life, certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer Read more [...]

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