Ashes before Easter

Posted on March 29, 2024 by stephen t berg / 16 Comments

Ash Wednesday, the dawn of Lent, andI’m riding my bike to church to receive my emblem of embers—a small cross of damp ash, marked on my foreheadby the r...

Magnets Really

Posted on March 21, 2024 by stephen t berg / 12 Comments

Whatever happens,those who have learnedto love one anotherhave made their wayto the lasting worldand will not leave,whatever happens.-Wendell Berry (Given Poem...

Contemplation/Spirituality

In the Midst of Mounting Grief a Moment of Calm

Posted on March 8, 2024 by stephen t berg / 18 Comments

In the midst of creeping worry and mounting grief—a moment of calm:almost happiness, not epiphanic, simply present; and when I turned my head to it, of ...

For Aaron Bushnell

Posted on March 5, 2024 by stephen t berg / 6 Comments

… for you know as well as I do that under certain circumstances, at a certain temperature, metaphorically speaking, words lose their substance, their content,...