-Jan 6, 2018 Today is the 19th of Tevet the moon wanes gibbous the indolent sun rouses a mere 8 hours and 37 minutes. It is the dead of winter which could be a metaphor except it is winter and you are still dead, Dad, no bud or blossom gathering nourishment to bloom forth […]
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Yarzheit Light
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Fathers, Prayer on January 8, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
Genealogy of a Ghost
Posted in Bible Story, Legends and Mythology, Poetry, Relationships, Writing on August 27, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
I married the man from an unbroken line of cattle rustlers and outlaws misogynists and God-fearers hard drinkers and card players good-ole boys and long-suffering wives descendants of those with skin white enough to hold slaves own vast farmland distill spirits to make it through North Dakota winters and high plains droughts.
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.
In the Chapel of St. Ignatius
Posted in Prayer, Religion, Spirituality on February 28, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
The white stone-washed walls are light-stained – seafoam and periwinkle at this hour. My mind goes back and forth My eyes move from every soft and shadowed and curved surface to the stark brown wooden crucifix. In this place of peace this chapel of luminosity this hushed contemplation I am impaled by the icon most […]