Alas, my comment was too long to post directly to your blog!I love that you've paired together two words which to the ordinary eye do not belong together. Rich new meaning, and a touch of irony! The word secular comes from Latin "that which is sown." You live in a place where most everything around you is sown- albeit (and the better for it) naturally sown. Generally the word secular refers to the things in the mundane world around us, not the "sacred" stuff usually associated with the spiritual matter we create for our religions. Your mundane/secular world is the land and the creatures and creation upon it... but now we have the word monastic, which implies a spiritual lifestyle based on order. In your case, however, the order "imposed" upon you is not that of religious authority, but that which you have chosen your self (which you have described wonderfully in your four points) and which comes from the natural order of the world around you. I suspect that you find a great deal of spiritual connection in the place where you do your living. In that which is "sown around you" you find your deepest spiritual life- a secular monastic. n'est pas?
COMMENT: Mike and I were very good friends as children beginning maybe around 2nd or 3rd grade when we were in Cub Scouts together. Face Book and the Internet are bringing us back together as friends. I suspect we grew apart many years ago as we each took separate paths in dealing with sexuality. In using the "angel on one shoulder/devil on the other" image - he chose one path and I chose the other. However, the wheel can turn either direction and we both find ourselves now in very similar places. Thanks for the comments, Mike.
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