About
In this blog I explore spiritual practices and experiences. I celebrate community and connections between people, and the giftedness friends bring to each other. Often this will be in the context of religious belief, but please don’t expect to find fundamentalist or dogmatic views here.
I am Christian, but I don’t believe that any one creed is better than all the others. And I have a selfish reason for writing here as well: the hope that doing so will bring more discipline and discernment to my own spiritual life.
The title is a quote from a chapter of The Prophet, by the Lebanese poet and writer, Kahlil Gibran:
Your house shall not be an anchor but a mast.
In our lives we need both; the mast to help us reach the horizon, and the anchor to ground us in the stuff of our daily lives.
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Mike Mackin 02.06.09 at 2:56 am
I actually found this blog while trolling for music on LastFM. I think you were one of Doug Peters (Green Man Music) friends. Are you still on there at all? Anyway, I enjoy reading your stuff. And I did vote for Obama – just get a hopeful feeling from him.
Tess 02.06.09 at 9:38 am
Hi Mike, welcome to the blog and thanks for your comment. I am on LastFM, although not very active there at the moment. Green Man Music doesn’t ring any bells with me. I’ll check him out later.
On Obama, I noticed that the other day when there was some problem about members of his cabinet, he apologised and admitted he had “screwed up”. When was the last time we ever heard a politician being honest enough to do that??
Jarkko Laine 09.02.09 at 10:35 am
Hey Tess, just had to leave a note to congratulate your choice of slogan. That Gibran quote is just beautiful!
Tess 09.02.09 at 11:57 am
Thanks Jarkko – as soon as I saw the quote I knew it meant something to me.