Kathy Donchak

Listening is the path to intimacy. The practice of intimate listening reveals the interrelationship between all aspects of perception, thought, feeling, sensation, intuition, and spirit…Listening is a way to go beyond the rational, chattering, divisive mind and feel the language of connectedness...

There's a certain Slant of light,Winter Afternoons –That oppresses, like the HeftOf Cathedral Tunes –​Heavenly Hurt, it gives us –We can find no scar,But internal difference –Where the Meanings, are –​None may teach it – Any –'Tis the seal Despair –An imperial afflictionSent us of the Air –​When...

Nothing could have prepared Your heart to open like this…” John O’Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings One of my sisters became a grandmother this week. Her son became a father. His wife became a mother. Our large brood paused our lives wherever we were to wait for news, to...

Sometimes I think, were I just a little rougher made, I would go altogether to the woods—to my work entirely, and solitude, a few friends, books, my dogs, all things peaceful, ready for meditation and industry—if for no other reason than to escape the heart-jamming damages and discouragements of...

Issue #205 Sunday Letter: Gratitude We return thanks to our mother, the earth, which sustains us. We return thanks to the rivers and streams, which supply us with water. We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicines for the cure of our diseases. We return thanks to the corn, and to...

The patterns of our lives reveal us. Our habits measure us. Our battles with our habits speak of dreams yet to become real." Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook I sat in my chair, alongside other parents immersed in their phones and watched as the day turned to night. The sunset, a mere sliver in the...