It turns out that a lot of people who don’t believe in God, and don’t ordinarily pray, find themselves praying as the airplane they are in prepares to leave the ground.

Are there situations in which you are surprised to find yourself praying?

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As fall deepens, the last leaves give up their grasp and are carried away. But the vines clinging to the walls aren’t going anywhere.

What are you prepared to let go? What holds you steady as you do?

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The word Islam means submission. To be a Muslim means to submit your life to Allah, and the practice of deeply bowing in prayer is a reminder of that submission to the Merciful, the Compassionate.

To what do you offer your life?

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The Buddhist practice of tonglen involves breathing in the suffering of another, and breathing out healing and relief of that suffering. Rather than either denying or taking on the suffering of those around us, tonglen involves both taking in and then releasing the pain we recognize, offering compassion and visualizing healing.

What spiritual practice helps you address the suffering that you see around you?

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“The Church says: the body is a sin.
Science says: the body is a machine.
Advertising says: The body is a business.
The Body says: I am a fiesta.”
― Eduardo Galeano

How do you celebrate your body?

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Perhaps the greatest grief of our time is the specter of global disruption due to climate change. Sometimes, in the face of such a huge, seemingly insurmountable problem, all you can do is pray. Sometimes, how you pray is through your actions.

What is your active prayer for this planet?

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“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.”

—Mary Oliver

What would you like to be able to say about your life as it nears the end?

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Many religious traditions light candles in prayer—memorializing the dead, asking for healing, expressing gratitude for something special. Light reaches out, expressing our conviction that we touch, and are touched by, far more that our hands can hold.

Who or what would you like to light a candle for today?

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Perhaps you might go to such a place only in your imagination—a place of sacred stones and grass that is the green of life itself. But your life could be richer for that imaginary journey into beauty and peace.

Where do you like to go in your imagination?

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“Prayer begins where human capacity ends.” —Marian Anderson

What spiritual practice helps you when there is nothing that you can do to fix or change things?

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Web-weaving spiders don’t hunt down their prey. They carefully prepare their web, and then they simply wait to see what will arrive, taking everything as it comes.

What have you achieved through a combination of preparation and patience?

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“The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.” —Muhammad Iqbal

How does science connect you with the spiritual?

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Walking the labyrinth is a form of contemplation—not a maze, which is a puzzle to be solved, but rather a winding path that you might wander toward your own heart’s center.

What form of movement helps you to find your center

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You might not expect to find the Virgin Mary in a wine shop. On the other hand, it happens pretty often that we meet the Holy residing in places where we did not anticipate discovering it.

Where have you been surprised by the sacred?

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“Prayer is where the action is.” —John Wesley

How do you find prayer in action?

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Intertwine your fingers, so that your hands are clasped together with your thumbs crossed at the top. Note that although your hands are now thoroughly interconnected, there is a sheltered open space there between your palms.

Who do you invite into the sheltered space of your care and compassion?

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The lotus reaches its roots down into the mud and the muck—and blooms with a pristine flower. Without the muck, no flower.

In what ways does engaging in the muck or mess or your life enable you to touch the sacred?

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Scientists have recently discovered that there are probably ten times as many galaxies in the universe as they had previously thought. Which means that our tiny lives belong to a web of existence that is ten times as incomprehensibly complex as we had imagined. But once you’re into the realm of the incomprehensible, it’s hard to tell.

What boggles your mind in a way that expands your heart and soul?

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In Catholic tradition a rosary is used to keep track of the number of specific prayers one has said. But a rosary or other prayer beads also connects prayer to the body as beads slip through the fingers.

What physical objects are part of your prayer life?

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Sometimes you have to summon up all your courage to confront your demons. But then, sometimes the things that seemed so scary turn out to be all bluster and no bite, and the best thing to do is just walk on by.

Where does your courage take you?

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Always be yourself. Unless you can be a unicorn. And if you can be most yourself by being a unicorn, then definitely do that.

When do you feel like your most authentic self?

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If you focus on the window itself, you lose sight of the trees beyond it. And if you focus on the trees you will probably miss the view of the sky.

What helps you to gain a perspective that goes beyond your daily concerns?

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Sometimes the simple feeling of someone’s hand in ours, or a friendly hug or pat on the back, is enough to give us the strength to go out in the world.

When has human touch given your strength or courage?

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Tibetan prayer flags flutter in the wind, each movement a prayer sent out into the world.

What prayers do you send out into the world?

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“In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard. Yonder they do not love your flesh. They despise it…. You got to love it. This is flesh I’m talking about here. Flesh that needs to be loved. Feet that need to rest and to dance; backs that need support; shoulders that need arms, strong arms I’m telling you. And O my people, out yonder, hear me, they do not love your neck unnoosed and straight. So love your neck; put a hand on it, grace it, stroke it and hold it up.”
― Toni Morrison

How have you learned to love your flesh in the face of those who despise it?

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“I will lift up my eyes to the hills, from whence cometh my help,” writes the Psalmist. Or you might lift up your eyes to the clouds or the moon or the sky at sunset—whatever helps you past the daily grind and into the grace of the beautiful.

Where do you turn your gaze when you need help?

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The Shinto ritual of misogi shugo involves purification by immersion in a waterfall, river or sea, experiencing the power of the water and the sacred nature of the place.

What spiritual practice connects you to a place that feels holy?

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“I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

What advice do you regret taking?

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“Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a [person] does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if [they know] what it is not.”
― Carl G. Jung

When have you gained an important insight by discovering what something was not?

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You know your route. You have a plan, and a scheduled arrival. You have things to do and places to be. And then a road block appears, and all of a sudden the well-planned route is just not going to happen. Action movies are pretty much the only place where it actually works to just power through the barricades.

What strategies help you to change course and find a new way?

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“At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.”
― Angie Thomas

When have you recently found your love to be bigger than someone else’s mistake? When has someone else shown you that their love was bigger than your mistake?

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The difference between a perfect bake and a burnt mess can be a matter of minutes. So can the difference between a useful conversation and an all-out fight.

What circumstances have you learned to extricate yourself from?

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“I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.”
― Joe Abercrombie

What is something you have learned from a mistake?

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Oops! Oh well. Things happen. Whatever. Excellent words to offer to ourselves. Not so good in place of apology to someone else.

How does the way you talk to yourself when you make a mistake differ from how you address others under the same circumstances?

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“It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

What mistake from a hero has surprised or disappointed you?

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“I’ll write it in in pencil.” I understand this is a possibility, but we’re not sure. Of course, few things in life really are sure. And sometimes the erasure is a blessing, and sometimes it’s a tragedy.

What uncertainty in your life is keeping your attention these days?

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“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde

What mistake are you happiest that you made?

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A Polaroid picture comes out of the camera as…nothing. The magic is in the waiting, to see what develops.

What are you watching, to see what develops?

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“Beware of speaking too much, for it increases mistakes and engenders boredom.”
― Hazrat Ali ibn Abu-Talib A.S

In what circumstances have you learned that it is better to speak less?

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Imagine how we might live differently in the world if those around us celebrated our failures with balloons, and maybe cake. Happy failure to you! You’ve learned something, and can now try something new! Congratulations!

Who has supported, or even celebrated, you when you’ve messed up?

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“As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.”
― Mel Brooks

What conditions make you more likely to make mistakes?

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Any writer knows that editing is a crucial part of the process—it’s pretty much unheard of for anything to flow from the brain to page fully-formed and perfect, without so much as a typo. Taking the time to polish and hone our work is an act of dedication and caring. Also, when someone else, unasked, takes a metaphorical red pencil to our work it is annoying as all get out.

What have you learned to check carefully? What have you learned to leave well enough alone?

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“And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

When have you reversed course after taking a wrong turn?

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So often, in daily life as much as great cases of national malfeasance, it is the cover up that will get you, rather than the crime. Admitting our mistakes and our failures, apologizing and setting a new course is so much harder—and more useful—than trying to make sure no one finds out how flawed we are.

What mistake do you need to admit to so that you can move on?

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“One mistake does not have to rule a person’s entire life.”
― Joyce Meyer

What is the worst mistake you have forgiven yourself or someone else for?

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Things can always go wrong, but some endeavors are more likely to go spectacularly wrong than others.

What is something you feel is worth the significant risk involved? What is not worth the risk?

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“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
― Bill Gates

What valuable thing have you learned from someone who was unhappy with you?

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Christian theology suggests that we live in a fallen world, in which original sin means that we are all sinners. Gravity declares that if you drop something it will fall, because that’s just the way things work.

How do you make sense of the fact that things in the world so often go wrong?

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“So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.”
― Neil Gaiman

What is a glorious, amazing mistake you have made?

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George Bernard Shaw said: “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” But even that seems like a pretty tall order. Lots of us make the same mistake a bunch of times before eventual success.

What mistake have you repeated before you eventually found success?

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“Have no fear of perfection―you’ll never reach it.”
― Salvador Dali

How does perfectionism get in your way?

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Some mistakes not only carry heavy consequences, but also the people making those mistakes can seem determined to double down, pushing the cost of their failure onto others.

How do you respond to grave mistakes of those with power?

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“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

When have you wished for more freedom to make mistakes?

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It’s awfully easy to take a wrong turn, and realize all of a sudden that a mistake you made some while back has landed you in completely unfamiliar territory. This is true in both a literal and a metaphorical way.

What helps you to get back on track when you are lost?

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“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery

What mistake do you hope to avoid making tomorrow?

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“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple—that’s creativity.”

—Charles Mingus

What have you made more beautiful through simplifying it?

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An infinity of shapes are inherent in the clay—and if you don’t like what you get you can always mush it up and start again. The clay only becomes rigid and fixed once it is fired.  That, of course, is the point at which it becomes useful.

Are you more engaged by possibilities or results?

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Any personal act of creation happens in the context of all that has gone before. No idea or craft or skill or technique exists in a vacuum. The only way to create is together with those who have gone before us and those who surround us.

Whose creations have particularly inspired your own?

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“Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.”

—Victor Pinchuk

Where do you see art and creativity shaping our society?

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We used to say that humans were the only animal to make tools, but that turns out to be flat-out wrong. It would be misguided to say that we are the only beings to make art—don’t whales create songs? We are, however, the only animal to have figured out the glories of cooking. Go, humans!

How do you express your creativity through food?

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It kind of seems like a miracle—that one can make warm, wearable art with intricate, beautiful patterns, just with some string and a couple of sticks.

What act of creation astounds you?

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“In the rising of the sun and in it’s going down, we remember them…. So long as we live, they too shall live, for they are now a part of us, as we remember them.”

Who are you remembering this Memorial Day?

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There is nothing delicate about the process of ironwork—it involves searing heat and bludgeoning pressure. The act of creation isn’t always pretty, even if the results are.

When have you been through the fire to bring something to birth?

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“Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.” -T.S. Eliot

What endeavors do you worry about?

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Our history is written in our bodies—scars and wrinkles and missing teeth and all. The beauty industry wants us to cover over or try to undo these “flaws,” but perhaps we could celebrate them instead as a map of how we have survived.

What mark on your body tells a story?

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“While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die—whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.”

—Gilda Radner

What glorious uniqueness do you celebrate about yourself?

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We might not all have the same flexibility or the same moves or even the same sense of the music, but that doesn’t stop us from all being in the same dance.

What creative endeavor do you like to do in conjunction with others?

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“Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you’re passionate about something, then you’re more willing to take risks.”

—Yo-Yo Ma

What are you passionate enough about to take a risk?

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There’s something irresistible about a big box of crayons. Even if your picture isn’t going to use all those colors, it’s still nice to know that they are there.

How is your creativity enhanced by broader access to resources?

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“There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.”

—Brene Brown

How has a failure led you to something unexpected and new?

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When we are lied to—particularly by those in authority—the world feels less safe, less trustworthy. Actually, the world becomes less safe and less trustworthy. The truth is an essential commodity.

What are sources that you trust to tell you the truth?

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Thomas Edison said that “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.” Malcolm Gladwell claims that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to gain true mastery of a skill. Creative genius is great, but it rarely turns into anything notable without a whole lot of hard work.

What do you care enough to work hard at, even though you don’t get paid to do it?

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Any work of art begins with an idea, but the idea unfolds in unpredictable ways as the project moves along. Often, it is difficult to know when something is done.

What part of your life is currently under creative exploration?

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“The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.”

—Pablo Picasso

What impedes your creativity?

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The number of astounding things in the world largely depends on our willingness to be astounded.

What have you been amazed by lately?

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Most of us present an image to the world that is glossier than what we feel inside. Sometimes that goes smoothly, but sometimes the need to keep up a shiny exterior image feels gloppy and awkward, a heavy coating over our true self.

Where or with whom do you feel you can share your true self?

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“Creativity is not just for artists. It’s for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it’s for engineers trying to solve a problem; it’s for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.”

—Twyla Tharp

In what non-artistic way are you creative?

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Carving is the art of making things beautiful by taking bits away.

What has become more beautiful to you by having less of it?

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The great joy of blogging and social media is you don’t have to have someone immediately available who wants to listen in order to have your say about things that matter to you.

What do you want the world to know?

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“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”

—Erich Fromm

What have you discovered by letting go of what you knew?

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A bicycle full of flowers is a pretty ineffective form of transportation. On the other hand, if you insist on filling your bicycle baskets with groceries you will have no room for flowers.

How have you given an item new life by reimagining its purpose? How have you given yourself new life by reimagining your purpose?

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“Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.”

—Maya Angelou

What have you learned about creativity from a small child?

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We talk about seeing things in black and white as being rigid, closed to variation, unable to see nuance. But even within the narrow parameters of black and white there are unlimited possibilities.

When have limitations led you to a more creative outcome?

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The Gaelic holiday of Beltaine marks the mid-point between the spring equinox and the summer solstice, the beginning of summer. It celebrates creativity in the most fundamental way—fertility.

What do you see growing in your life?

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“When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.”

―  bell hooks

How do you renew your spirit through acts of love?

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We sure could use a reset button on the world, right? Unfortunately, all we get are all the tiny ways that each of us nudges the world in the direction we hope it will go.

How will you nudge the world today?

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“We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.”

― Isabel Allende

What hidden strength have you seen come forward during the present crisis?

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“To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.”

― Wendell Berry

How do you foster the Earth’s renewal?

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 “rise
said the moon
and the new day came”
― Rupi Kaur

Who or what compels you to rise?

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Music, in its infinite variety, is a potent source of renewal, moving our minds and hearts to places we could not otherwise have traveled, moving our bodies in synchrony to the beat.

What music moves you?

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In the TV shows people are transformed—made over—by changing their hair, clothes and makeup. In real life how we change our appearance rarely has a significant impact. But people do make over their lives in surprising and transformative ways, heading off in new directions.

How have you made over your life?

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“If there is nothing new under the sun, at least the sun itself is always new, always re-creating itself out of its own inexhaustible fire.”
― Michael Sims

What keeps you going?

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Crossing from the dark into the light feels like an invitation, a welcome into the comfort of the familiar. But crossing from the light to the dark—the known to the unknown—is its own kind of invitation, one that holds, perhaps, the greatest potential.

What unknown are you moving into?

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“When this ultimate crisis comes… when there is no way out―that is the very moment when we explode from within and the totally other emerges: the sudden surfacing of a strength, a security of unknown origin, welling up from beyond reason, rational expectation, and hope.”
― Émile Durkheim

What, in this present crisis, is welling up in you that is beyond rational expectation?

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“What is the scent of water?”
“Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.”
― Elizabeth Goudge

What form of water provides you with a sense of renewal?

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Plants manage to flower—if only briefly—even in the harshest of conditions. Even in hard times there are often flashes of joy.

What has made your heart bloom lately?

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“Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.”
― Oscar Wilde

What is becoming clearer to you?

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Life—Easter improbably asserts—can come from death. This might seem like an absurd claim, if nature didn’t tell us exactly the same thing.

Where have you seen life arising from a place of death?

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Sleep refreshes and renews us. But awakening can mean far more than getting out of bed in the morning. We awaken our senses, awaken our conscience, awaken to spiritual truths. Sometimes awakening involves metaphorical as well as physical stretching.

How are you stretching yourself these days?

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