Welcome
Thanks for visiting our web
site!
Taking a cue from the title of
one of Doug’s books, we hope you’ll enjoy “sauntering” with us
through our various involvements. You may wonder what a “composury”
is: it’s a word we created to describe the little out-building where
Norvene had her office in our southern California home. Presumably not only
did she compose books there, but she also experienced composure in
its secluded setting! So, with our move to southern Arizona,
we've adopted the name as appropriate for our home, the Desert
Composury. And we have taken the word as a key part of
our collaborative name: Composury
Colleagues.
Our site combines several aspects of what Doug’s recent book calls “Homes
for the Heart.” On our pilgrimages and retreats, we endeavor to
combine active and rest periods to enable reflective experience by
establishing “home away from home,” a sacred container, for those
periods. In our home setting in the Sonoran Desert, we find the pace
of life and the understated beauty of nature a great asset to our
daily contemplative schedule. Finally, the heart is the deepest
home, expressed both in Doug's poetry which graces these pages, and
in the spiritual direction we share with those who come to be with
us.
We hope these views and notes will
bring you some of the wonderful gift of shalom, the fullness of
peace.
-Norvene and Doug Vest.
 We
are taking a new pilgrimage in 2009! |
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Years later, we marveled
side by side
that we were given life together
because, like a busy spider
spinning sunlit
outside our kitchen window,
we’d released those early,
breeze-cast filaments
from our deepest inner selves.
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Day-lighted desert:
largely landscape,
if scoped by eyes alone;
a work of rustic art
stretching farther
than a thousand galleries
imagined end to end.
At night, stars uncloak a ceiling
stippled by its countless lights,
their whisperings unheard
by ears a billion miles away on tiny earth.
But silence, if maintained –
meditation on the wonder –
reveals the biggest universe of all:
internal –
an inside greater than what’s out.
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