Night Vigil

  • More on the Night Vigil

    Continuing to collect every bit of popular writing that points out the importance of the night vigil…even if that is not what they call it. 🙂 …humans did not evolve to sleep through the night in one solid chunk. Until… Continue reading

  • Night Vigil 22 Oct 2014

    The enduring meaning of a process is the intuitive impulse to create. This is mirrored in the instinctual drives toward procreation and tool making. You can trace back any produced thing to its original. But the original is the expression… Continue reading

  • Night Vigil 20140702

    We are all hunting. Some for yesterday (redemption), some for tomorrow (expectation). But those who hunt for today (detachment) capture neither debt nor anxiety. Let-go! Continue reading

    Night Vigil 20140702
  • Skin Aflame – A Poem and an Abstract

    For that beautiful youth Health in your hands… Thanksgiving! For me let there be An intercession! Another deep night Called to this vigil Not by a soul on fire With the compulsion To peer into Abyss But awake, alert Beneath the harsh… Continue reading

    Skin Aflame – A Poem and an Abstract
  • Keeping Vigil

    I call the time between first and second sleep the Night Vigil, following the old monastic traditions. For me, Night Vigil begins with an examination of conscience: Oh thou Encompassing, thou All, thou One. How can I give myself over… Continue reading

    Keeping Vigil