http://dualravens.com/learningtodance explorations of the inner life Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:35:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://dualravens.com/learningtodance/2008/01/09/values/ I've come to realize one of the hardest lessons for the spiritual life isn't about the internal state nor is it even directly related to our perception of God. The hardest lesson of the spiritual life has to do with that oft source of frustration -- other people. ... http://dualravens.com/learningtodance/2007/08/04/lessons/ Early in the morning light a chipmunk decided to walk down the stares, pausing every few steps, watching, listening. A jay visited, for only a brief moment. I was up early again, the first time in a long while, before the sun even hinted at a rise, the ... http://dualravens.com/learningtodance/2007/07/24/morning-157/ It's now 85 degrees in the house. I realized a few years back that it's at 85 degrees that my brain stops working. It's not that I'm bothered, or frustrated, or otherwise put off by the heat. It's just that as I try to do something I realize the ... http://dualravens.com/learningtodance/2007/07/05/hot/ I'm fairly certain I've lost some friends this past couple of months. Now, in the past I've had that happened and I've lamented the decisions I've made. Well, not much lamented the decisions as lamented the fact that I really thought that God was leading me towards making those ... http://dualravens.com/learningtodance/2007/06/19/nearing-summer/ For a while I had a blog called Morning and Evening. This was more about my personal inner life, a place where for a little while at least I posted in the morning and in the evening, journaling my thoughts on the spiritual life. That regularity fell off ... http://dualravens.com/learningtodance/2007/06/15/back-to-it/ Most of the stuff for the last year before this has been my attempts to understand myself through the all too occasional artistic attempt. If you're interested in tracking the words I've written about such stuff, you'll pretty much have to wander back to September 2005 and everything before ... http://dualravens.com/learningtodance/2007/03/11/363/ http://dualravens.com/learningtodance/2007/02/18/174/ http://dualravens.com/learningtodance/2007/02/15/divergence/ http://dualravens.com/learningtodance/2007/01/19/rising/