Which sounds ‘way more serious than I’m going to be here. I am in a blissful near-coma brought on by dear family having gathered together for wonderful food and storytelling. This meal’s story theme: stupid things done while Scouting or a young teen. Those categories turned out to be interchangeable, interestingly enough. And even 14yo […]
Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and […]
Why do we call ourselves ‘Imagists’? Well, why not? People say, ‘Oh, because it looks silly, and everyone is some sort of an “ist,” and why give yourselves a tag, and what on earth does it mean, and it’s dam cheek any way.’ Well, I think it a very good and descriptive title, and it […]
On Sunday, as he was building into his sermon, my pastor said, “Why do we tell this story over and over every year?” He was referring to that story of the guy who sends his people to borrow (we hope!) a donkey, so he can sit on it as they walk into downtown Jerusalem, as […]
One of my classmates this morning asked me whether I’d handed in my paper last week, or I’d asked for an extension. I made a face, saying, “I’m only taking one class! I have no excuses.” She laughed, and said, “Life! Life happens! That’s a good excuse!” I went on to expound the rest of […]
“I’m not sure I could agree to feed myself to the lions.” “I think, though, if we choose to die to self little by little by little, we can approach the kind of love Christ models.” We have been reading the Gospel of John. Today’s lesson included Peter’s denial/betrayal, pointedly contrasting this scene with an […]
“Being published is being published. Being a real poet is being a real poet. Sometimes they intersect.” —Deborah Keenan Synchronicity remains uncanny, doesn’t it? Even when I’ve enfolded it into my faith-space as a form of tiny miracle or prophetic communication. The above quote, which opens a blog post that I’m pretty sure I riffed […]
One result of my blogging routine that I particularly enjoy is writing in my head all the time. Not that I didn’t do that before, but that I have a place and a purpose (however slender) for these compositions. Tuesday, when I woke within the morning but too early, after having gone to bed ‘way […]
“We teach best what we most need to learn.” —Richard Bach, Illusions I suspect we may be in our “mow every week” season. It wouldn’t matter to the height of today’s grass; the last time I was able to fit mowing in was over three weeks ago, during Spring Break. One could argue that I […]
I was commuting south from campus when I realized I was annoyed. In the null space that my brain inhabits while driving, I kept returning to a particular journal whose submission criteria include the statement “Poems must have a title. If you haven’t named it, it’s not finished yet.” When I originally absorbed the information, […]
