Our felix culpa – happy fault
For over a decade he sat watching poplar trees through a front window. And for seven of those years he was part of a little gathering that met each Wednesday—se...
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1000 Grow Mercy dispatches
When a blog reaches 1000 posts, it’s time to take stock. Grow Mercy was, is, an experiment. In a way it began through the power of a sentence, in the context of...
The first human—in the beginning was the word
It is of course the case that the posts one thinks about at length, beats one’s head with, are those that are of the least interest to most people. Nevertheless...
Visible victim decontructs myth
Here's a link to my article in today's Edmonton Journal. The article is a reflection of my (attempted) Easter poem. Icon of the crucifi...