One of the apparently surprising truths in my life is how intensely challenging A’s teen years were. From what I’ve gathered, the chief artifacts of the struggle are *my stories *A’s grades/classroom demeanor, because My Sweetie doesn’t gather his strength by sharing his troubles aloud and (mostly) because A is a congenitally private person. Can […]
25 Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. […] 28 “Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice […]
I caught up with my friend M yesterday after a gap of some months. She was lamenting her lack of art output. She also told me about an exceptionally challenging student she’s been working with, and by “exceptionally challenging” I mean I don’t have more intense words than that. She says that when she gets […]
It’s mid-afternoon. I’ve told myself several narratives about today, and about this post; I think the first one was around midnight, but I’m never sure about me and the middle of the night. What I am sure of is what my movement-tracker tells me: that I haven’t gotten a full eight hours of sleep since […]
One of my many blog-post-emails today started with: On Not Caring What Others Think. Oceans of ink and oceans of bits have been poured over that topic. People never seem to tire of it, though to guess from the profusion of articles they don’t get any better at it. From time to time I read them, […]
20131027: I can see better in the clouded light today — the color shades don’t wash out in the blaze (do our shades wash out in the blaze of God’s glory?) One of the collateral effects (benefits? drawbacks?) of living in Central Texas is that sunlight here is generally strong. The sky is brilliant blue, the sun’s […]
Yesterday I evidently traded writing for picking up operational supplies from the grocery store. Because that was the lone negotiable item in the day. It was a nicely paced day, with time enough to do each thing and then turn to the next…but none of those things was writing. Until 11pm. Which is, as you know, a […]
I was shining a brooch I bought for myself in college. It’s a round pin, except that it’s a sinuous entwining of vine-leaves and a single salamander. At first glance, it’s a complete experience of entanglement, and only later do you notice the salamander’s presence, at one with and different from the vines. I fell […]
or truth can live with right and wrong or molehills are from mountains made —long enough and just so long will being pay the rent of seem and genius please the talentgang and water most encourage flame as hatracks into peachtrees grow or hopes dance best on bald men’s hair and every finger is a […]
I launched my app, swiped through to my warm-weather usual (30 oz hibiscus iced tea, no sweet stuff), tapped the closest store, and pressed “order.” I parked the car, grabbed my purse because 1 Corinthians 8:9, strode across the drive and into the store, moved between two phone-absorbed middle-aged men (“Excuse me, please, gentlemen.”), grabbed […]
