WHERE IS THE BOOKSTORE?
Lent 2026, a sharing straight from my Center for Action and Contemplation Living School work:
As you look back on your own life and the last few months of the Essentials of Engaged Contemplation course, what rhythm of life or order of life has begun to emerge for you?
Response:
The rhythm of nighttime street traffic (inner and outer) is feeling more and more okay now; even comforting as I fall asleep with the windows open. It keeps me on a sort of monastic schedule— a horn, a big truck bouncing on a dip in the road, a street racer or siren waking me up at 1, 2, 4am. But it gives me an opportunity to get up and go outside on the balcony, and look up at the sky, and breathe the night air and pray. I come back inside, close the windows and sleep through until 8 or 9am. No twenty-five year old digital alarm clock anymore; it broke last year and I didn't replace it (this is freedom).
Continuing, I make coffee, feed the cat, check my email and CAC Living School feed. I journal, blog, grocery shop weekly, do errands, listen to church online. I talk to neighbours and strangers when I go out — it's a rich rhythm of encounter; ever changing, ever the same. It fills me up, until the next time (and I hope it adds something to other people's days too). But mostly I just long to be home with my cat, and I am.
And, I'm noticing a desire to get back to reading bookstore-books this summer. Not so much focus on just blogging.
How have I not been to a book store in almost 8 years?
Where is the Indigo in this neighbourhood? Is there one?
Amen
