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 5, 2021 | Ideas, Lifestyle, Society, Spirituality
It is loss, not possession, that delivers us to the essence of things. This has been a lifelong lesson. I am a connoisseur of loss, not by choice, but by nature and history. As I child, I felt deeply and therefore felt losses deeply. This, coupled with a tumultuous...
by Julie Mathison | Nov 15, 2020 | Ideas, Spirituality
Happiness. What exactly is it? Webster tells me it’s “the state of being happy,” and provides the telling example, “she struggled to find happiness in her life.” From this I conclude two things: happiness is self-referential and most...
by Julie Mathison | Oct 28, 2020 | Ideas, Lifestyle, Society, Spirituality, Uncategorized
Boredom. The scourge of childhood. At least, it used to be. I remember long drives in the backseat of the car, all the way across the country with only the horizon for company. Telephone wires that looped up and down, up and down. Static on the radio. Windows rolled...
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