Coming Down to Earth with Barbara Brown Taylor

The Spiritual Direction of Cats

The cats in my life have taught me more about individuation than any textbook. They know who they are and expect me to know who I am. They remind me…

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February 2026

What Neighbors Do

The power at my house went off at 8:47 AM on January 25th. Overnight, freezing rain and sleet had turned into a coat of ice on every outdoor thing in my…

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One Owl's Second Chance

One of the best things about living in a low-density rural area is how much room there is for other creatures to live here, too...

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January 2026

The Automatic Earth

I never put that poor hyacinth in the ground. I never watered it. I totally forgot it was there. Yet here it is, still in its plastic three-inch pot…

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The Genius of a Place

For the first time in a long time, I did not welcome the new year in the mountains of north Georgia but in the deserts of southern…

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December 2025

Live Nativity

The resting sheep put me at rest, too. I caught their peacefulness and didn’t want to look away. Was it all the Bach I had listened to, all the nativity…

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November 2025

Meetings with Bears

As much as I never wanted to meet the local bears in person, I longed to see them up close. Their presence proved how much life the land could sustain…

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October 2025

Lord, Increase My Bewilderment*

What a petition! What a verb! It was only four words long, with such good news in it that I memorized it before the ink dried. My increasing…

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Lost Love in the Chicken Coop

I lost my favorite hen yesterday. She was the first to come when I called, the first to let me pick her up, and the only one who seemed content to be…

Oct 2, 2025 • Barbara Brown Taylor

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September 2025

Love's Labor

The first thing I learned about Labor Day was to put away my white clothes until the following Memorial Day.... When I entered the workforce myself…

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August 2025

Dharma in the Garden

How well is your resistance to change working for you? When you give yourself completely to what matters most in the present, does the meaning vanish…

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July 2025

Dependence Day

My independence is like half a pair of bookends, or a North pole without a South. It only holds up with its partner in place, reminding me how much I…

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