The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? -W. B. Yeats, The Second Coming (1919)
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Darkness Drops
Posted in Aging, Fear, impermanence, Protest, Time on February 26, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
Two Years Ago
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Fathers, Love, Prayer, Relationships on January 10, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
Two years ago today, you died, Dad. You missed the Alaska cruise, the week in London, two weddings, one at the exquisitely chic Sonoma winery, where you would have made that face you made whenever you succumbed to pressure to taste a great red wine, which never delivered anything close to the two-packet Sweet-n-Low […]
In the Market
Posted in Adam and Eve, Lust, Relationships, Women on January 8, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
As it always has, temptation came from the lure of the fruit and the urge of the Serpent.
At the Kitchen Window, New Year’s Eve
Posted in Birds, Death/Loss/Grief, New Year's, Renewal/rebirth on December 31, 2016 | 1 Comment »
Slowly, slowly I wash our last dishes allow the too-warm water to redden my hands to just the right amount of pain so I will remember that this is what it took to release the hardened remnants from the places I used to feed on you.