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The history of words fascinates me. Take the word “icon” for instance. Icon comes from the Greek eikon - "likeness, image, portrait; image in a mirror; a semblance, phantom image." (Online Etymology Dictionary) Who knew there were so many meanings?!
I had always understood an icon to be an image painted on wood (usually) of a figure or event of ...
American poet and writer, Archibald MacLeish said, “Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there…” (“Sweet Land of Liberty” Collier’s 8 Jul 55)
I am not sure we here in New England could say one way or the other what our springs are like. Some years we have ...
How fitting that the inauguration of Awakening Spirit comes just days after the Spring Equinox! Spring – a time of rebirth, of hope and of new life – reminds us that winter is but the end of the beginning. In this season of hope, we refocus our hearts, minds, and eyes to “see” the possibilities that lie just beneath the surface.
Awakening Spirit will, I hope, be a place where all may come to gather. While here, they will find messages that are meant to inspire, enlighten, heal, nurture ...