Solitude

June 1, 2025

On the blessing of interruptions

If you want to make the most of your life and fulfill your highest purpose, business experts and life coaches tell us, you need to stay focused on your dream or goal and resist distractions and interruptions as much as possible. By letting go of distractions and avoiding interruptions, you’ll increase your prospects of arriving Continue reading

Ruminations

distractions, interruptions, letting go, making the most of your life, Paul and Silas, prayer, priorities in life, purpose, sabbath, slave girl, Solitude, success, systems we live in, Wendell Berry
February 11, 2024

To see and be seen

Some of you remember a television game show from the 1960s called To Tell the Truth. A guest with some unusual occupation or experience would appear with two impostors to be interviewed by four celebrities who tried to identify the authentic guest. After some questioning, the host would say, “Would the real [guest’s name] please Continue reading

Ruminations

a quiet place, Annie Dillard, describing a mystery, Francis Bacon, Jesus, Listening, memorable conversations, mystery, PhilipGlass, quiet, reign of God, Retreat, seven veils, Solitude, spiritual communion, the problem with listening, To Tell the Truth, who am I
February 12, 2022

Shutting the door

“Anyone can retire into a quiet place, wrote Evelyn Underhill, but it’s the shutting of the door that makes the difference. Solitude is a time for stripping away everything in order to focus on God. (Matt 6:6)” (Sue Monk Kidd). Lent is not far away, beginning in just under three weeks with Ash Wednesday on Continue reading

Ruminations

a quiet place, focus, Lent, music of the spheres, silence, Solitude, sound of sheer silence, still small voice, watching the news

About Me

Rich Neal is, in no particular order, a wordsmith and graphic designer; lover of typography, books, and publishing; photographer; contemplative; saunterer; and a retired and still-active pastor. He claims neither special wisdom nor particularly deep insight into life, only occasional glimpses of what lies behind the veil along the way. He shares them here in the hope of connecting the pieces of life’s puzzle that come to him in the journey and would consider it a gift if sharing them also connected him with others who travel an unmarked path toward the same unknown end.

Solitude

On the blessing of interruptions

To see and be seen

Shutting the door