Introduction This post is about a sense of home, a fundamental aspect of human spirituality. This post begins with an exploration of the sense, or feeling of home as a lived experience which we all share. A second post will look at the object of this sense, home as a spiritual reality. We begin in this case with the sense that I had coming home from All Saints Elementary to our little house nestled into a hillside in El Sereno. I’ll describe that sense of home in a way I hope you can relate to, different than me though you … Continue reading Spirituality in Daily Life: a Sense of Home

Latino Days of the Dead Musings The Day of the Dead, and other days of Death, awakened in me a sense of Death, as a spiritual presence. Death can be present and color the world. Then, we are in Death’s world for a while. Death in this way is a godhead, or “of a god,” or part of God, or like a santos (saint). Death as its own day, of course. So it gets special offerings as it manifests in different forms. The forms are, that death stands related to loved ones who have passed. But the dead, and Death, … Continue reading Days of the Dead: My Aunt Grace, Part I