For me poetry and faith are interdependent. Each affects the other as they embrace and interpenetrate. Faith informs art, and art enhances faith. They both, for each other are breath for the bones. ~Luci Shaw in Breath for the Bones. It’s more than breath for my dry bones, this. It’s breath for my very soul, […]
Archives for July 2011
Linda Yezak: One-Word/One-Line Interview
Today I’m super excited to have my favorite redhead (next to Lucy–okay, ahead of Lucy) visit to share some of her deepest, darkest secrets. Linda Yezak is the author of Give the Lady a Ride, her debut novel. You can find my review here. I don’t know when I first “met” Linda or how–except […]
Textures of Text: You Might Not Finish This Post
It’s a glitter globe night. Hundreds (thousands? more?) of lights flicker across the dark field. I can’t capture them with my camera. They rise up into and past the trees. Rising stars. Until it seems earth meets sky, and it’s hard to tell where the fireflies end and heaven’s lights begin. Each flash could represent […]
Monday Meditation: Green Like Worship–A Poem
Green like worship summer dreams swim in rippled cloud ponds. Fern fronds bow and stately trunks stretch skyward. Arms reach for heaven hushed by monarch majesty and ancient words carved in dusty walls by shanty boy ghosts seated on log pews. Hymns echo through pine-carpeted cathedral and the sacred pours into lemonade lakes. […]
Sunday Seasoned Sayings: Give and Given Back
Give away your life; you’ll find life given back, but not merely given back—given back with bonus and blessing. Giving, not getting, is the way. Generosity begets generosity. Luke 6:38 (Message) We fed the birds all winter. And now dozens of happy sunflowers greet us under the feeders. Bonus […]
Sunday Seasoned Sayings: Samuel Lover
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can. ~Samuel Lover
Five Minutes with Grateful
Joining Lisa Jo today for her five-minute word prompt on GRATEFUL. Pouring words for five minutes with no editing. GO! I’m grateful for water that ripples and waves that crash. For sand that sings beneath my feet. For “I do” and “I love you” and a tender smile. I’m grateful for family and friends and […]
