Arise Blog
Neuroscience. Creativity. Contemplative.
What’s going on in the brain?
Current Readings
The Other Half of Church: Fascinating work, discussion, and practicum.
Quill and Cross in the Borderlands by Anna M Nogar, Sor Maria de Agreda and the Lady in Blue: The Blue nun is another descriptor often used in New Mexico. Our state has many…
Christine Valters Paintner’s, the Artist’s Rule: Her writings, creative contemplations, and guiding practices have been a significant inspiration in creativity…
Simply Deep: joy
Where have you noticed “joy” lately?
It’s the time of year where we see the word “Joy” stamped, sewn, or painted on every regular item (pillows, towels, mugs, shirts, windows etc). We hear the songs of Christmas laden with this simple word. Recently one evening, I was sharing with my husband that joy is the emotion clinical psychologist Dr. Jim Wilder has found to be most effective in treating…
Advent Moment “art with meditations”
Welcoming the Advent season of “Coming” “waiting!” Some ask, “How do you spend your time leading up to Christmas?”
My reply is always eclectic because the way of entering advent is particular to where I am or rather we are as a family—place, relationally, spiritually, life as it is. Music is …
Vines & Vineyards
Clearing a Field
God invites us where we are.
A song, a parable, a looking, and a disappointing moment. Does this sound like a normal day? We awake in the morning after a good night of sleep with a song. Then a few hours of moving about our day we hit a lesson (parable), right? At some point, we hopefully pause for lunch and look back over our morning to see how we're doing and then forward to see how much…