More Reflections
The Logical Song: What Have We Accepted as True Without Ever Choosing It?
Some songs ask questions that refuse to age. Supertramp’s “The Logical Song” begins in childhood, in a world experienced as beautiful, magical, and full of possibility. Then education begins. Expectations arrive. The child is taught how to become sensible, practical, dependable, acceptable, and appropriately defined. But beneath all that learning, a more troubling question survives:…
The Sacred in the Ordinary
“Attention is the beginning of devotion.” — Mary Oliver I keep coming back to that sentence. Devotion sounds like such a big word. We associate it with faith, prayer, commitment, love, worship, service. Things we deliberately give ourselves to. But Mary Oliver begins somewhere much smaller. Attention. Before devotion, notice. Before meaning, notice. Before gratitude,…
