Woolgathering: Contemplative Rest

By: Monique Francis
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  • Stories for daydreaming. A virtual blanket fort of respite from the busy world.
    Monique Francis
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  • Advent 2024: The Light Keeper's Box
    Dec 20 2024

    Today's reading is The Light Keeper's Box a traditional origin story about day and night from the Warao people of the Orinoca River delta in Venezuela.

    This particular translation is from The Return of the Light: Twelve Tales from Around the World for the Winter Solstice by Carolyn McVikar Edwards; published by Marlowe & Company, 2000.

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    13 mins
  • Advent 2024: Mary Oliver's "Bird"
    Dec 13 2024

    Today's reading is an essay from Mary Oliver called "Bird". One cold Christmas morning she finds a injured gull and brings it home to live out the rest of his days.

    Source: Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver; published by Penguin Press, 2016

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    18 mins
  • Advent 2024 - For Joshua by Richard Wagamese
    Dec 5 2024

    A reading from the book "For Joshua" by Richard Wagamese.

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    21 mins

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