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An Extraordinary Ordinariness
Merriam-Webster: Extraordinary - 1a:going beyond what is usual, regular, or customarySynonyms: aberrant, aberrated, abnormal, anomalous, atypical, especial, exceeding, extraordinaire, exceptional,...
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A Heron in the Rain
When I first began to speak about Innermost House in public I had no idea what to say. The house had come to us so spontaneously that it preceded any words. It was not a project to be designed or a...
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The Song of Birds
Where I live now, we back onto a little urban forest. I wake to the song of birds here just as we did at Innermost House. In our back yard we meet a wide variety of guests I remember from our years...
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Seeing is Believing
Welcome Marianne, I am delighted to hear from you. My husband and I have spent some happy time in Bavaria. I hope you come to love your simple life there.My life in Innermost House was almost...
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Ourselves Alone
Thank you all for a very interesting and insightful weekend of thoughts. It is wonderful to be greeted by such a lively and earnest conversation.When I wondered aloud about the unbelievability of...
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Safe and In Control
How do you do Jennifer, it is such a pleasure to hear from you. Rowdy Kittens seems a long time ago now. Thank you very much for staying with me! Thank you all so very much. I continue to think...
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Coming to Terms
Dewey and Al, you raise so many questions of such importance that addressing them properly is beyond my organizational ability. You should see what a mess I can make of a kitchen drawer when I go to...
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Reality Keeps a Ledger
It is raining today. The tropical storm that is sweeping up the eastern shore bears with it the weather of change. I feel strangely at home in the rain. And lately, though I never thought I would say...
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Evolving Together
Leah, you have asked some very good and sensitive questions. I want to try to answer at least a couple of them tonight, and more on Friday.You ask about our many moves, and if I would now prefer to...
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A Larger Unity
You are very welcome Sandy. I am so grateful to think our Conversation has made a difference to you.Leah you ask about the way in which the next Innermost House is likely to change when we make a new...
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The Conversation
The Conversation. When I am asked to name the innermost fact of my Innermost Life, my answer is always the Conversation. The seed from which Innermost House grew and the seed I took from it, the soul...
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Normal to Me
My life has always been a mystery to me. I am accustomed to the world in which I find myself again, but somehow it continues to take me completely by surprise. Your words took me by surprise today. I...
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Innering Time
When I looked in on your words this morning I was greeted by something approaching Great Silence!It was so like my experience of Innermost House that I wrote a little about it. Now I return to find it...
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Peace
Vanessa I am so grateful you chose to step inside and join our Conversation. I too have observed the way the silent world of birds and beasts inclines toward our own inward peace. Perhaps taking care...
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Gleanings
You are very welcome Kimberley. I am so glad you wrote. I am glad your father found a place of freedom and peace to rest at last.In a real way, Innermost House was born out of a search for freedom...
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Market Day
It is strange, the desperate corners into which the world will sometimes drive us for aliveness. Ember, how well I know the feeling that drove you to pitch a Great Plains Tipi in the garden of an...
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Thanksgiving Morning
Pam, you reach in from your life toward the farm, I reach out toward the farm from the woods. We meet at the farmers market! James I smile back at you. How many times in my life I have been grateful...
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Thanksgiving Afternoon
It is middle afternoon. Outside the woods preserve their winter twilight. Thanksgiving dinner has been cooking over the coals in the hearth since late morning. The hours have passed in the kind of...
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In a Quiet Spirit
Yesterday we celebrated Thanksgiving with a family at their home here in the East. The landscape along the way to their house wore the colors of remembering—the gray spray of bare trees, the rust of...
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Thank You All
Ihope you all enjoyed a beautiful, happy Thanksgiving holiday, as I did, thinking of you.I took the weekend to read back through our four months of conversation together. It was such a grateful time...
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