Faith, Fiction, Friends

Poet Luci Shaw died last week, age 96. She would have turned 97 on Dec. 29. The news prompted an outpouring of memories, comments, shared ex...

Luci Shaw  has been writing poetry for more than half a century. She’s seen poetic fads, trends, and movements come and go. And she’s seen w...

You read a poetry collection life  Reversing Entropy  by Luci Shaw, and you’re surprised by how consistent, and often confused, your respons...

Something I’ve seen in my own family: The young look forward to see where they’re going: the old look backward to understand. That ...

I sit near the door man in tights black Lycra shorts my favorite jersey six-years-old yellow helmet tucked under my arm I...

As I get older, I’m noticing something about myself. Things I didn’t have much time for when I was younger seem to be more importan...

This article was originally published at The Master’s Artist That’s the title of a poem by Luci Shaw, included in her collection Ha...

I’m in the bookstore at Laity Lodge , near Kerrville, Texas. I’m here for a retreat, with a cross-discipline group of people who have come...

  Thirty years ago, I was a 20-something speechwriter for a large manufacturing company, and part of a three-person speechwriting team. On...

I first heard the phrase in 2002. I was working as an independent consultant, and was in Chicago to meet with a client. Several staff peop...

“Fullness of life in arenas of art and spirituality demands that we let go,” writes Luci Shaw in Breath for the Bones: Art, Imaginatio...

A dozen years and several employers ago, I spent some time with a career counselor. I needed help in figuring out where I was at work (tran...

I became part of a story once. Twenty years ago, the company I worked for, and the industry I worked in, faced a monumental problem, one ...

She captured my attention with the imaginary house. For The High Calling’s Monday book discussion, we’re starting to read Breath for the...

That's a title of a poem by Luci Shaw in her latest collection, Harvesting Fog: Poems . I talk about the poem and the creative imaginati...