by Julie Mathison | Jan 22, 2024 | Ideas, Lifestyle
Here in the Pacific Northwest, it’s all about the trees, at least when it comes to natural beauty, outdoor recreation, and occasionally… natural disaster. In the summer, fires rage through our forests with increasing frequency, casting a dingy, orange veneer over the...
by Julie Mathison | Oct 24, 2023 | Home, Ideas, Lifestyle, Spirituality, Uncategorized
It’s autumn and the leaves are changing. Weeding in the garden, I see a bank of clouds roll over Mary’s Peak, darker than the pervading gray. I run inside to get my raincoat and then keep weeding, pulling clumps of grass out by mud-clad roots, thistles, old lettuces,...
by Julie Mathison | Jul 3, 2023 | Ideas, Lifestyle, Spirituality, Travel, Uncategorized
What do we search for, and why? This, I wondered, as I stood on the rooftop of the Cathedral of Santiago De Compostela, gazing down at the Puerta Santa, the Sacred Gate. I might have asked the two women with whom I was chatting; Swedish, but schooled in perfect...
by Julie Mathison | Apr 5, 2021 | Ideas, Spirituality
Grace. Such a nice sounding word, isn’t it? Something to put on a Hallmark card. A platitude, mundane, like the meal it precedes, the name of someone white, privileged, perhaps a little bland but thoroughly respectable. Grace calls to mind forgiveness, if only...
by Julie Mathison | Jan 8, 2021 | Ideas, Society
On January 6th, 2021, our Capitol was breached by a group of individuals claiming “the people’s” house for their own. It is a day that will be written into our national history as one of tremendous significance, but just what we say about it remains...
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