Starting a few months into the pandemic, I set myself a practice: to draw or paint a bird every day for a year. During that time, I also started training to be a hospital or hospice chaplain. Deep down, I knew that the attention that attended each drawing and painting related to my desire to enter into contemplative care. The connections have become clearer to me over time and will always, I hope, be in process.
“Birds of Praise” documents something of that journey. The title comes from the term the Irish poet, peace activist and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama coined for the “Amen” at the end of a prayer.
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