Earth Day is this week. As we consider the state of our world - and the ecology of both our material and spiritual environment - it makes sense to ask what our role is, has been, and is supposed to be in relationship to "our common home" (Pope Francis).

Here are some initial thoughts about elegance, nature, and depth; a poem about happiness; and even a haiku.

Moving toward a more profound, rich-in-all-the-ways-that-are-important, life.

It takes just a second to break something.  Restoring what was broken takes time.

A Messy Elegance Reflection

Outcomes are not certain, though some are much more highly predictable than others.

Life is messy. We know that. But some people move through that mess with a surprising kind of grace.

Emerging from the depths, he taught us about depth

“The poor in spirit are by no means poor-spirited. They are persons who see so much to be, so much to do, such limitless reaches to life and goodness that they are profoundly conscious of their insufficiency and incompleteness.” ~Rufus Jones, The Inner Life , p. 19