So My friend Amber took this photo a few months back, when we were on our nightly walk to feed the horses down the street. The photo doesn’t exactly fit with what I want to say–but it is so lovely that I couldn’t resist posting it. God is love. I am always trying to rearrange [...]

Yesterday I did something that I’m probably not supposed to do: I took my friend Ludmilla to a funeral parlor to select an urn for her husband’s ashes. Cremation is not generally practiced in the Eastern Orthodox church because we cherish our bodies as images of the divine. We believe that even ever they’ve been [...]

So this is a picture of our current dwelling, although I am always afraid to call it our home, because while we do live here, we’re not the owners, we’re merely caretakers, biding our time in an uncertain market as we wait to see what happens next. The house has everything we could have hoped [...]

So I know I need to blog again, but I’ve been struggling over what to write, especially because this has been a lonely month. I keep resisting the temptation to put “Jenny is lonely” for my facebook status update. I mean, how pathetic is that? But if I’m to revisit this blog, I might as [...]

Last Wednesday morning, as I woke to the pale sun coming up over the mountains, I realized that more than 3,000 miles away, Caroline Kennedy was being buried by the people at St. Nicholas Parish in Portland. How fitting, it seemed, that Caroline’s funeral would fall on the feast of the Transfiguration. Caroline was a [...]