The Soulistry Blog

I love learning.  No, scratch that. I'm passionate about learning!  I try to learn something new every day. Some days the learning is huge. Other days it's subtle.Some days the learning is about me ... what I believe, who I am, things I need to work on.  Some days the...

This is a difficult time for many.  Terrible things are happening.... The people of Ukraine continue to be at war.  ... Say the words "Israel, Palestine, Gaza " and people "take sides."... People flee their homes in the hope of finding refuge from fire, ICE,...

Many seem unable to experience hope or joy these days. But on the last weekend in April, both were experienced by well over 500 on an island in British Columbia, Canada at the "Nanaimo Infusion." The story is simple: one Canadian (Tod Maffin) was concerned by the...

We’ve come to Wednesday. Not an easy week any year, but this year even more difficult for many Christians who are reflecting both on the this week known as Holy Week, and the political climate of the world with its serpentine growth of fascism around the world - and...

EVIL,  That word has been ascribed to people over the centuries: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Vlad the Impaler, Pol Pot, Heinrich Himmler, Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Ivan the Terrible, and more - including lately to DJT and his minions.   And that same word has been...

Today is a special Monday - it's Monday in Holy Week.  Many are feeling alone.   Alone - because of the stresses of the world.  Alone because of the political crises in the United States, the ongoing war in Ukraine, the threats on Canada, Panama, Greenland and many...

Weaving is not something I have done very often, but a weaving metaphor seems appropriate when political strands are divided ... families are broken ... countries are shattering from within ... the world seems to be moving away from democratic principles ... and...

For forty days and forty nights, every year, millions of people around the world are involved in sombre reflection and Lenten observance in something called the Season of Lent. Last and this year, Lent has been a time of darkness in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Ethiopia,...

Weather-wise, it is overcast and gloomy. Nature has arrived in full force bringing devastation and tragedy. Politically, aftershocks of the global tariff war have begun to arrive in full force heaping grief, disillusionment, anger and unbelievable fear. When the...

MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) became law in Canada in June, 2016 with a variety of responses. It has been welcomed, ignored, misunderstood, controversial, deemed to be anathema.Many years ago, the request by a friend to sign as a witness on her MAiD document,...

Welcome Spring ... Vernal Equinox ... to this part of the world.   You arrived today!  Hurray! You're technically here, Spring Equinox, so may we have ... a little less cold ... no more frost (or snow!) ...  more sunshine ... blossoming flowers and shrubs and plants...

Semocracy is on the edge of disappearing in many countries. Added to that is the rising homelessness; war; addiction; climate refugees; increasing hatred at work, school board meetings, local community gatherings; escalating polarization among family members,...

A friend posted this a while ago, and with her permission, I share it here.  She wrote: "To tell me I'm not family because my political views are different from yours, is beyond sad. To wish me dead, simply because I have gay friends and support gay rights, because I...

A long time ago, a child lived while the world around her was exploding with hatred, violence, evil. At that time, one man had risen to power ... a man who hated ... a man who lied ... a man who was the catalyst for violence. ... a man through whom evil spread. That...

I watched tonight's news. Sure don't like doing that, but know I need to keep informed because things are moving sooooo quickly - not just in the United States, or Canada, or Ukraine, or ... but everywhere. What can we do? We can "be each other's strength"... by being...

A friend wrote: "I don’t know how the world is going to manage four years of this. I really honestly don’t know, because if this is just the beginning, what’s going to happen from here?" Neither does anyone else know what's going to happen.But whatever happens, we...

Dear friends, This is not like the kind of post you would normally expect to find here on "Soulistry-Artistry of the Soul". And yet - and yet, when I think about Soulistry, (its origins, purpose, raison d'être), I think of spirituality and recognize that for me, the...

Another month begins ... February 1st ... and this year, it's a day and month with a number of things to mark ... St. Brigid's Day (more about her, below) ... Imbolc/Imbolg, a Gaelic festival which celebrates the arrival in longer, warmer days and early signs of...

There she was,perched on the fenceas I drove by.She looked so peaceful.I hadn't noticed her beforethough I'm sure she was there when I had driven by that place, many times before.She was a welcome respite in a dayseemingly empty of peace. Images of peace are...

It's difficult to be grateful~ when going through a difficult time personally; ~ when politics seem to occupy the attention of news and social media; ~ when phones become a barrier to conversations between parents and children, between friends and are even a safety...