My friend sculpted this dogwood. On this the first day of Eastertide, I wanted to visually celebrate — like I visually commemorated Good Friday. The dogwood’s link to Easter is a tradition in the eastern South, so I thought I’d go with that. Plus I am wiped out from cleaning up after Easter dinner (only […]
I almost got my theology assignment read before class today. As I skated along, I read: “…introduces the silence of the Invisible Other in a profound way, as a silence not indicative of indifference to the authority imposed from without, but a silence hiding an often violent voice.” —Diane N. Capitani, “The Poor, the Marginalized, […]
Sitting in theology class on Monday, I heard something that made me wince. Hard. It went kinda like: “I get that people will argue with me about this, and won’t want to talk about the Bible, but what do I say to make them listen to me?” What was worse? A twenty-something guy was speaking. […]
I find it amusing that, as word-oriented as I am, my brain compulsively works in pictures. And analogies, but those are yet another form of images—layered on top of one another, in that case. Sunday morning, in the midst of something quite different, I think: some come to faith (trust) in Christ all at once, […]
So yesterday was a day of body-ness and relationship. My trainer moved my recalcitrant muscles to places they didn’t want to go–after first buttering them up with increased blood flow. My sweetie and I had a lovely dinner treat from my extended family…three hours of interwoven conversations, and excellent food and wine presented classically… down […]
Tonight M and I managed to make our symphony date for the first time since… 2017? Anyway, we were treated to Mr. Cameron Carpenter’s amazing skill and musicality on his transportable organ (?!? but yes!), featuring Joseph Jongen’s Symphonie Concertante for Grand Organ and Orchestra, Op. 81: It’s a large (musical) canvas, and there was […]
So how have I lived my life since 1999 and not known that March 21 (the day after my anniversary) is World Poetry Day as declared by the UN / UNESCO?!? PROLOGUE Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour, […]
Today, March 20th, is the vernal a.k.a. spring equinox here in Austin, TX. It looks like it, too, all breezy and sun-filled. Twenty-five years ago today, maybe about lunchtime but I don’t remember, I got a gold charm—twinned hearts—on a fine gold chain. I put it on immediately, and have worn it ever since. Much […]
A bomb went off in front of a house at the front of my neighborhood Sunday (last) night, injuring two. Text alerts came to our cellphones; auto-dialed calls arrived on our land-line too, at 11 last night, at 5:30 this morning, at 6. We are staying inside our home, as requested—no drive to the office, […]
