Small Devotions: Fiber Arts and Bead Craft
One of my favorite ways to spend offline time is making things, and that’s often via one of the fiber arts: weaving, embroidery, or sewing. I also spend a fair amount of time doing bead work, for my own delight and to make gifts to others. Despite the lack of evidence for the Nornir as […]
Small Devotions: Taking Out the Trash
This might seem like an unusual subject for devotion, but it is part of daily life! The city I live in uses a three-bin system: recycling, compost, and landfill. Each bin has a list of exactly and only those items which should go into it—even the landfill bin has items which are not acceptable. This […]
Small Devotions: Newspaper Blessings
This post is part of my Small Devotions series—small moments and small actions that are touchpoints throughout my day, which arose gradually and without a lot of planning or intent on my part, and which serve as reminders to stop and take a minute to get out of my head and restore some perspective to […]
Small Devotions: A Blessing for Reading
I find it’s easy to fall into being so caught up in the rush of daily life that I miss opportunities for small devotions. I’ve been working on slowing down (no, really, I have—there’s nothing like a set of week-old abdominal incisions from surgery to make one discover the benefits of moving at a stately […]
Small Devotions: Feeding the Ancestors
I’m still figuring out my ancestor practice, with helpful suggestions from Karen Krebser, who has done quite a bit of her own work on the topic. Like the rest of my practice, it gets bumpy and doesn’t receive enough attention when I travel for work, but I’ve found a Small Devotion to help keep me […]
