Today is Resurrection Monday. Yesterday was Easter, and I cried. It was a small thing that triggered it on top of something else that happened the night before. That sparked a cascade of past hurts. You know how that happens. I haven’t even cried during Covid. Well, until until yesterday. We live a pretty quiet, […]
FIRST WORDS FRIDAY: WEEK 10 – 2019 – THE NUN’S STORY
The Nun’s Story by Kathryn C. Hulme, copyright 1956, was a Book of the Month Club selection that reached #1 on the New York Times best-seller list. My friend’s dad, who was our mailman, tucked it in our mailbox addressed to my great-grandmother. I read her books–maybe not when I was 7, but a little […]
One Word Less For Lent 2017 – Day 5 – Hope of Spring
Hope of Spring Creation’s writing love notes, inking jeweled lines on blue parchment and punctuating with a kiss of red. Snow dust spills in sunlight like makeup glitter, and life’s being conceived under a white sheet– hope of spring. Word count: 36 A repost In the stillness, Sandy
When You’re Crushed and Broken – #TheBrokenWay
“The miracle happens in the breaking.” ~ Ann Voskamp in The Broken Way: a daring path into the abundant life It’s just the two of us for dinner. I scrounge up some chicken, left over from the chicken-with-cherry-sauce recipe from A Taste of Laity Lodge. Only for her, I serve it plain with bottled […]
How to Face Winter with Hope
About hope and Haiti and purpose in later years.
The Staying Power of Scarlet
“Just hold on and suck in.” Scarlett grips the bedpost while Mammy yanks on the corset and cinches Scarlett’s waist down to 18-1/2 inches. Laces her up right tight. Molds her right to form. Bones bear down to bear her in. I think about bone that once bore down on another’s side, fragments that […]
Still Saturday: Rest for the Weary
Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. ~ Matthew 11:28 Few people know how to rest these days. Even on vacation, many people rush to cram in as much as they can before returning to their jobs, where they spend twice as much energy […]
Dreaming With Darwish: Nurture Hope
The poet Mahmoud Darwish believed there needed to be a time gap between an event and the writing about it. My thoughts about this latest dare are like “cotton ginned by the wind.” Maybe I need a wider gap. I’ve sat most of this past week in “A State of Siege,” a long text […]
One Word Less For Lent 2015 – 30
Ode to a Towla Worm (to the tune of “Our God is a Worm”) You have done it… climbed a tree, attached yourself, delivered your children, excreted a scarlet string to hold them, sacrificed your life. It left a crimson stain. It is finished. Word Count: 30 All the One Word Less for Lent 2015 posts are bundled […]
In Which Cancer Brings Clarity for David
UPDATE: David Landrith, pastor of Long Hollow Baptist Church, joined Jesus in heaven this morning, November 18, 2014. He now rests in the shadow of the Amighty. Please continue to pray for his family and his church. I’m so sad today, yet grateful for the privilege of having just a small connection with his people, for having […]
