Scraping away the barnacles — embracing contingency
At the beginning of every year I read the same book. A book Herman Melville called the, “. . . truest of all books.” A book Thomas Wolfe said was, “the highest ...
Category: Contemplation
Love make me bolder – a New Year’s prayer
Love make me bolder. Bold to take myself less seriously, so to take beauty, kindness, mercy, more seriously. Bold to recall, under the tyranny of all our applie...
Christmas mourning – Blue Christmas
This year, for Christmas, the folks at Bleeding Heart Art Space, made space for sadness. Photo credit: Bleeding Heart Art Space What follows is my contribution ...
The Lord’s prayer with edits
Our God, who rides upon the heavens, and hides in every human heart, give us this day, a basement window, and a haze of thin branches through which to view a wa...