Archive - Potter's Inn with Stephen W. Smith

After the Family Leaves

Recovery and Joy in the Morning After

20 hrs ago •

June 2025

The Last Fireflies of Spring

Saving Joy and the Paying Attention to the Soul and the Earth

Jun 24 •

Baby Steps in a Modern Age

Remembering the essential steps of caring for your soul

Jun 23 •

Before the World Ends

Holding Angst and Love in the Same Heart

Jun 22 •

The Weather in Iona

Re-entry insights and take-a-ways from my pilgrimage

Jun 18 •

My Undoing at Iona

How a pilgrimage to a holy isle undid my life

Jun 15 •

The Celtic Cross

Uniting beauty with suffering

Jun 13 •

And now Lord, and with your help, I shall become myself. —Soren Kierkegaard

Jun 12 •

Seeking the thin to live with astonishment

Jun 10 •

Beginning Again

My Celtic Pilgrimage

Jun 9 •

My Coracle on Iona

My Camino de Iona

Jun 7 •

May 2025

My pilgrimage to Iona and my new poem about Greening.

May 30 •

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