How poignant to be leaning into [Cynthia's] writing about Holy Week and the fifty days following Easter—as we enter Holy Week together. Ascension and Pentecost, yet to come.

Please consider this writing as a communiqué from out on the Wisdom path—a report on where one of your fellow travelers is currently located, how I got here, and what the terrain looks like.

This year marks my tenth anniversary with The Wisdom Jesus. It came to me when I’d just begun practicing Centering Prayer at a time of great need and personal crisis

What did Jesus teach—"on the ground" as we say these days—and how? These chapters center on the living Jesus and his teachings.

In preparation for this deep dive together, I invite us all into a slow reading of The Wisdom Jesus, Lectio Divina style.

It is Advent and I am making bread, ingredients already at hand, one free mind, one open heart, one body, sensing

Twenty-nine brave souls gathered to explore Wisdom through the lens of the Enneagram. Locating our work within the framework of Gurdjieff’s five ‘Obligonian Strivings,’ we discovered that it is from the foundation of abundance, goodness and yearning, that we are invited to wield agency through growing knowledge, being and presence in order to then take our posts as responsible stewards of energy and servants of the whole.