INTO THE WILDERNESS
These days, I inhabit the Wilderness because I crave the prayer of Union, as St. Teresa would describe it. In the beginning, however, I...
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Orienting yourself in the Wilderness
From INTO THE WILDERNESS: A 12 Month Guide Clearing the way for a STILL/WILD practice You can move through the following twelve sections...
10 Day Silent(ish) Retreat
Take your demons and your gods to the mountain and in your silence let them play, to eventually wander off on their own leaving you; to...
STILL IN THE MIDST OF BUSY
Photo: Shawanna Kendrick, Chattanooga, TN) By this point, my kids are grown and out of the house, I work at home, and there's a pandemic...
Hello again, STILL/WILD
It's good to be back! Just over a year ago, I took STILL/WILD offline, as it were, and engaged in months of active discernment. We're...
CALLING ALL WOMEN!
Samara Gaev @truthworker is the founder of Truthworker Theatre Company and a prisoner rights advocate. "Working inside of a movement...
STILL/WILD Home
STILL/WILD has a particular ethos, a rich aesthetic, an earthy mysticism, and is both a practice and a way of life. At S/W, we love...
STEP AWAY FROM YOUR SCREENS
In this, the age of screens, the idea of setting your phone down - on the subway, in the doctors office, every time you have a spare...
Prayer Candles
"I will hold you in the Light," the good Quakers say. (I attended Quaker meeting years ago.) I've said it countless times over the years,...
Dinner Plates and the Death Penalty
For the most part, I conceptualize STILL as quiet contemplation, and WILD as fierce and unrelenting change-making; contemplative Justice,...
Before and After STILL/WILD
I'm always fascinated by before and after pictures of radical, physical transformations, like this one of my friend Danielle Mitchell...
Divine Therapy
Get a load of this astonishing claim: “Through the regular practice of centering prayer,” writes Thomas Keating “the dynamism of interior...
Badlands
Lately, for the record, I've been describing my attempts at Stillness as a "bad trip to the Badlands." (Many of the photos on this...
Little Hands of God
It happened three weeks ago in North Carolina, in the wee hours of the morning. “This is the kind of Friend You are - Without making me...
Spring = WILD
If I didn't love the warm weather months so much, I would be heartbroken to see the winter end each year, what with all its wild and...
Meditation, yes. But first: THE SCREAM
For three days in a row, my attempts to enter into the Stillness have been laughable - in a torturous, unfunny sort of way. I am well and...
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