Public reflection, unhurried.

A Quaker meeting, first time. I am told: sit in silence. If someone is moved to speak, they speak. Otherwise silence. Forty-five minutes. Three people spoke, briefly. I have spent four years in meditation halls. I have...

Once a month, on the new moon — which I did not learn from my tradition, and which I still feel a little silly doing — I write a letter to someone who hurt me in the old house. I write the whole thing. Everything. Then...

Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience obtains all things. — Teresa of Ávila, c. 1577