The Wild Reed

Thoughts & interests of a queer seeker of the Divine Presence;
of a “soul dancer,” seeking to embody with grace and verve
the mystico-prophetic spiritual tradition

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

An Autumn Walk Through the Neighborhood

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• “Everything Is Saturated With the Sacred”
• Autumn: Season of Transformation and Surrender
• Holding the Moment
• Autumn's “Wordless Message”
• O Sacred Season of Autumn
• “Thou Hast Thy Music Too”
• Season of the Soul
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – October 20, 2024
• The Autumn Garden (2024)
• October Vignettes (2024)
• October Vignettes (2023)
• The Autumn Garden (2022)
• Autumnal Thoughts and Visions (2022)
• Autumn – Within and Beyond (2021)
• Autumn – Within and Beyond (2018)
• Autumn – Within and Beyond (2016)
• Autumn Beauty (2015)
• Autumnal (and Rather Pagan) Thoughts on the Making of “All Things New”
• An Autumn Walk Along Minnehaha Creek
• Autumn Psalm
• Autumn Hues
• Autumn by the Creek
• From the River to the Falls
• Autumn Dance
• The Prayer Tree . . . Aflame!
• “This Autumn Land Is Dreaming”
• October Afternoon
• Time to Go Inwards
• To Dream, to Feel, to Listen

Images: Michael J. Bayly (Seward neighborhood of Minneapolis, Saturday, October 11, 2025).

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Michael J. Bayly: Born and raised in Australia, I now reside in the U.S. where from 2003-2015 I served as the executive coordinator of the Catholic Pastoral Committee on Sexual Minorities (CPCSM). During this time I also helped found both The Progressive Catholic Voice and the Catholic Coalition for Church Reform.

I established The Wild Reed in 2006 as a sign of solidarity with all who are dedicated to living lives of integrity – though, in particular, with gay people seeking to be true to both the gift of their sexuality and their Catholic faith. The Wild Reed's original by-line read, “Thoughts and reflections from a progressive, gay, Catholic perspective.” As you can see, it reads differently now. This is because my journey has, in many ways, taken me beyond, or perhaps better still, deeper into the realities that the words “progressive,” “gay,” and “Catholic” seek to describe.

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