I can't think any more today about the election. My brain is full. During this season of conventions and media debates, I have been a spiritual domestic goddess by day and a TV watcher by night. I bought a 9 cubic foot freezer. I have been buying vegetables and various freezeables for days now. My friends are asking me, "So, what did you do with tomatoes today?"

The space we find ourselves in ends up affecting our mood, our actions. I cannot write out the monthly bills on anything but an organized table. Some people cannot write creatively on anything but yellow legal paper. Others cannot relax until the dishes are done. Some cannot sleep without "their" pillow. We all have ingredients that have to be in place for us to do certain things. The same is true for prayer/meditation. Having the right time and place established can really help us build this beneficial and calm time into our hectic schedules.

Poets were my first priests, and poetry itself my first altar. -Mary KarrSince the Enlightenment Era we've been very busy pursuing knowledge--and correspondingly with arguing over which group has cornered the market on getting-it-right. Now that we've moved into a post-enlightenment, post-modern millennium, many of us are realizing that facts are slippery creatures. Suddenly our perspectives shift and we see that what is true for you is so very often not true for me...or the other way around...or both things in the same breath-taking moment.