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Highway Adoption

The truck ahead of me has a bumper sticker that says “Stay in your lane.”

At first blush – good advice. But further introspection reveals a flaw. In truth, the lane I am currently in is not my own. Nor is the lane you are in yours either. None of us can lay claim to these streets. At least not individually. Contrary to popular belief, we are a collective.

Perhaps a truer bumper sticker is the one that says “Share the road.”

Namely, the entire road is for all. The lane I am in is not MY lane. It is available to anyone else who needs it. You are welcome in the lane I am in, and I hope that I am welcome in the one you are in.

Alas, too often I forget this truth. I am too quick with my tongue or horn and too slow with a kind gesture.

So come on over.

You are welcome here in this lane as well.

No schedule. No perceived deadline for my ETA. No stress or emotional attachment to the human construct of time. No amount of hubris or disdain.

Nothing is worth the destruction of a hospitable spirit while one is driving.

July 7, 2014

Highway Adoption

The truck ahead of me has a bumper sticker that says “Stay in your lane.”

At first blush – good advice. But further introspection reveals a flaw. In truth, the lane I am currently in is not my own. Nor is the lane you are in yours either. None of us can lay claim to these streets. At least not individually. Contrary to popular belief, we are a collective.

Perhaps a truer bumper sticker is the one that says “Share the road.”

Namely, the entire road is for all. The lane I am in is not MY lane. It is available to anyone else who needs it. You are welcome in the lane I am in, and I hope that I am welcome in the one you are in.

Alas, too often I forget this truth. I am too quick with my tongue or horn and too slow with a kind gesture.

So come on over.

You are welcome here in this lane as well.

No schedule. No perceived deadline for my ETA. No stress or emotional attachment to the human construct of time. No amount of hubris or disdain.

Nothing is worth the destruction of a hospitable spirit while one is driving.

July 7, 2014

Highway Adoption

The truck ahead of me has a bumper sticker that says “Stay in your lane.”

At first blush – good advice. But further introspection reveals a flaw. In truth, the lane I am currently in is not my own. Nor is the lane you are in yours either. None of us can lay claim to these streets. At least not individually. Contrary to popular belief, we are a collective.

Perhaps a truer bumper sticker is the one that says “Share the road.”

Namely, the entire road is for all. The lane I am in is not MY lane. It is available to anyone else who needs it. You are welcome in the lane I am in, and I hope that I am welcome in the one you are in.

Alas, too often I forget this truth. I am too quick with my tongue or horn and too slow with a kind gesture.

So come on over.

You are welcome here in this lane as well.

No schedule. No perceived deadline for my ETA. No stress or emotional attachment to the human construct of time. No amount of hubris or disdain.

Nothing is worth the destruction of a hospitable spirit while one is driving.

July 7, 2014

Highway Adoption

The truck ahead of me has a bumper sticker that says “Stay in your lane.”

At first blush – good advice. But further introspection reveals a flaw. In truth, the lane I am currently in is not my own. Nor is the lane you are in yours either. None of us can lay claim to these streets. At least not individually. Contrary to popular belief, we are a collective.

Perhaps a truer bumper sticker is the one that says “Share the road.”

Namely, the entire road is for all. The lane I am in is not MY lane. It is available to anyone else who needs it. You are welcome in the lane I am in, and I hope that I am welcome in the one you are in.

Alas, too often I forget this truth. I am too quick with my tongue or horn and too slow with a kind gesture.

So come on over.

You are welcome here in this lane as well.

No schedule. No perceived deadline for my ETA. No stress or emotional attachment to the human construct of time. No amount of hubris or disdain.

Nothing is worth the destruction of a hospitable spirit while one is driving.

July 7, 2014

Highway Adoption

The truck ahead of me has a bumper sticker that says “Stay in your lane.”

At first blush – good advice. But further introspection reveals a flaw. In truth, the lane I am currently in is not my own. Nor is the lane you are in yours either. None of us can lay claim to these streets. At least not individually. Contrary to popular belief, we are a collective.

Perhaps a truer bumper sticker is the one that says “Share the road.”

Namely, the entire road is for all. The lane I am in is not MY lane. It is available to anyone else who needs it. You are welcome in the lane I am in, and I hope that I am welcome in the one you are in.

Alas, too often I forget this truth. I am too quick with my tongue or horn and too slow with a kind gesture.

So come on over.

You are welcome here in this lane as well.

No schedule. No perceived deadline for my ETA. No stress or emotional attachment to the human construct of time. No amount of hubris or disdain.

Nothing is worth the destruction of a hospitable spirit while one is driving.

July 7, 2014

On Busyness

June 8, 2014

What Did I Accomplish Today?

What is the 
measure 
of a 
good day?

Accomplishment 
can be a strange 
idol. 
It promises 
peace 
after one more 
task, 
one more sermon, 
one more song, 
one more post, 
one more 
finished 
thing. 

But then 
the day 
ends, 
and my soul 
still has to 
live 
with itself.

Here in the 
twilight, 
rather than 
asking
what I have 
done,
a better 
measure 
might be:

Did I become 
more free today?

Did I become 
less bitter?

Did I tell 
the truth?

Did I release 
what was 
not mine 
to carry?

Did I move 
even slightly 
toward 
love?

A clear mind 
and 
a better heart 
may be 
holier than 
a completed 
checklist.

So maybe 
my evening prayer 
is simply this:

Lord,
I release the day.
I release what I finished
and what I failed to finish.
Clear my mind.
Soften my heart.
Let me sleep as one who is loved,
not as one who must prove his worth.
Amen

Tanka “Mark 112224”

Embrace this God-thing.
Do not hesitate to pray -
for everything.
Practice honest forgiveness. 
You'll be saying, What nountain?

At the Table in Thunder

Here now, late at night, alone at the table, I draw to the sound of thunder and the rattle of rain against the windows.

The house is dark except for this small pool of light. Outside, the world is being washed, struck, shaken. Inside, my hand moves slowly across the page, making marks no one has asked for, no one is waiting for, and yet somehow they feel necessary.

The thunder speaks in a language older than words. The rain answers in thousands of small syllables. And I, with my pen, add my thin human line to the chorus.

Perhaps this, too, is prayer: not asking, not explaining, not performing. Just being awake with the storm. Just making something while the night makes music. Just sitting at the table as the rain reminds me that the world is still alive, still trembling, still being drawn by a hand larger than mine.

I Am . . .

I am the ringing chime
I am the blowing breeze
I am the pileated’s cry
I am the wind in the trees

I am the hush before thunder
I am the trembling leaf
I am the ache beneath wonder
I am the prayer under grief

I am the shadow at evening
I am the gold on the hill
I am the creek softly speaking
I am the soul becoming still

I am the dog at the doorway
I am the lamp in the rain
I am the path through the meadow
I am the song after pain

I am not one thing only
I am neither fixed nor confined
I am the world God is breathing
in my body, spirit, and mind.

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I’ve been waiting a couple of weeks for the frame to be delivered for this.

It looks great!

Monk in the Winter Twilight.

Ink on Canvas. 46cm x 33cm

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#interiordesign

This is a big picture - one I like very much!

It’s called ‘Monk at the Lake'

Ink on paper.

60cm x 84cm.

I love how the ink has broken up in places.

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Today I made a new Monk picture. Monk is battling his way along the top of an ominous black formation. There’s snow. The trees are bent by the wind. Birds above and below.

There’s an unsettling sense of Monk in struggle.

It’ll go on my website tomorrow unless someone wants it before then.

Ink on A4 paper (30cm x 21cm)

£95. Free postage to Ireland/UK. At cost postage elsewhere.

#ink #art #irishartist #contemplativeart #meditation

Today I made a new Monk picture. Monk is battling his way along the top of an ominous black formation. There’s snow. The trees are bent by the wind. Birds above and below.

There’s an unsettling sense of Monk in struggle.

It’ll go on my website tomorrow unless someone wants it before then.

Ink on A4 paper (30cm x 21cm)

£95. Free postage to Ireland/UK. At cost postage elsewhere.

#ink #art #irishartist #contemplativeart #meditation

Today I made a new Monk picture. Monk is battling his way along the top of an ominous black formation. There’s snow. The trees are bent by the wind. Birds above and below.

There’s an unsettling sense of Monk in struggle.

It’ll go on my website tomorrow unless someone wants it before then.

Ink on A4 paper (30cm x 21cm)

£95. Free postage to Ireland/UK. At cost postage elsewhere.

#ink #art #irishartist #contemplativeart #meditation

“Disquiet Pervades the Land of Nighttime Anxiety” • #Watercolor on board 10” x 12” ••• framed 11” x 13”

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“Autumn Turmoil” • #Watercolor on board 12” x 10” ••• framed 13” x 11”

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“The View at 40” • #Acrylic on wood panel 34.5” x 17”

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“Hostage of Fate” • #Watercolor on board 12” x 10” ••• framed 13” x 11”

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“Hope, Apparently Indifferent to the Imminent Ruin” • #Acrylic on wood panel 10” x 7”

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“Hidden Genius” • #Watercolor on board 6.75” x 9.75” ••• framed 13.5” x 16.5”

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“Where Do We Go From Here?” • #Watercolor on board 12” x 10” ••• framed 13” x 11”

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“Time Passes at 24 Frames a Second” • #Acrylic on canvas over wood panel 30.5” x 20”

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“Solicitude Pondering” • #Watercolor on board 10” x 12” ••• framed 11” x 13”

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“Infinite Potential Timing Out” • #Watercolor on board 10” x 12” ••• framed 11” x 13”

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“The Fog of Grief Reflecting on Memories of the Past” • #Watercolor on board 12” x 10” ••• framed 13” x 11”

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“Perseverance Resolutely Looking into the Future while Apathy and Wistfulness Linger, Firmly Rooted in place and Ill Fortune Creeps up to Blind Side Him” • #Watercolor on board 10” x 12” ••• framed 11” x 13”

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“The Fool Cut into Pieces and Smoked over an Open Fire by Sorrow, Guilt and Betrayal” • #Watercolor on board 12” x 10” ••• framed 13” x 11”

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