So much of our life is seemingly spent inside the interiors: the interiors of our body, home, screens or the hands of clocks. But somewhere outside of that, somewhere outside the lines and structures, is perhaps where we make sense of time. When we are in the forest,...
What I love about this drawing by Leonardo da Vinci called La Scapigliatta (1508) is that there is a certain sense of humility and purity in her image. The messy hair and faint loose lines remind us that the sacredness of our being isn’t about being perfect as...
Have you witnessed water actually begin? Like when a pipe bursts. Or when an axe hits the ground and clean water bulges from the earth. Pure, true. It’s perfect. And it’s as if we’ve opened the desert. In his book The Secret Knowledge of Water, Craig...
Purity, like devotion, is a virtue that may sometimes be regarded as a grand thing – high minded, even abstract. We might think we have to be vegan, celibate, free-from-all-sin almost angelic beings to be living in purity – but that’s not really...
I recently came across the book Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water written by naturalist and eco-philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore, which features twenty essays invoking a wide range of different waters and terrains. Each river essay she begins writing alongside...
