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Fast Hiking, Slow Pen
Two weeks ago on Memorial Day weekend, my husband and I signed up for yet another hike with the Atlanta Outdoor Club.
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No Adjectives, No Adverbs
My most consistent spiritual practice this Golden Gap year (or years) has been very early rising and around an hour of free writing — for the past several months consistently Haiku.
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Tuna Salad and Mother’s Day
This past Sunday, Mother’s Day, I was without children: one being in Brooklyn, two of them spending time together at Oakland’s Fairyland with their own small children.
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In Detroit with Humanistic Jews
This past Sunday, I was in the prosperous burbs of Detroit, a few miles anyway from the inner city boarded up neighborhoods with their ubiquitous gun shops.
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Lost Easter
My walk this morning, almost a week after this year’s late Easter Sunday, made me aware of how the spring here in Georgia is already leaving.
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Without Gefilte Fish or Matzo Balls
It was the day after our little chosen family Seder on Monday evening, the first night of Passover, when the New York Times ran a story about a major gefilte fish shortage.
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About 10,000 Steps, Speed Hiking and Being Wired Well
I have never been a runner or even a jogger. I have, however, been a walker, a walker with a spring in my step, a good trot.
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We Do What We Can
I was going to write and post this week about what we did last Sunday morning, another one away from any sort of indoor faith community.
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Jump Starting a Reading More Life
My colleague minister the Rev. Naomi King (daughter of a famous novelist) posted on Facebook this week that this coming Monday, March 3, is Read across America Day.
Rev. Marti Keller
The heart of my vocational life is to bear authentic and courageous witness.
Marti’s Latest Book
Marti’s latest book of poetry, Red Wool Socks and Dark Chocolate: A Life in Three Lines (Matrika Press, 2020), in its attention to the objects and experiences in one’s everyday life, affirms the sentiment that haiku and haiku-like short verses can find their inspiration beyond the realms of nature and seasonal themes. Informed by marvelous examples given at the North America haiku conference, this chapbook features culturally appropriate observations and reflections. This expansive approach to these brief, immediate verses offers a satisfying interlude between the ordinary and the sacred.
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