Returning
Location, real estate people tell us, is everything. To be DIS-located is, then, a threat. When things come apart, our
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Holiday Songs
Mark and I are finished with our album. I’ll post the release this week upcoming. One of the songs on
Living Through Exile
I wrote this to our church back at the beginning of April. I hoped, like all of us, that we’d
Diligence not Goosebumps
There is plenty of good work to do—beyond the ministries of the church itself, we have a world of opportunity.
Safe Distances
It’s not social distancing. It’s just “safe distance.” One of our older ladies’ classes met with me Tuesday morning in
Two Poems for the Pan*****
So, two more little poems. I can’t help it. They just pop out. Whether they spread uncontrollably is, well, not up to me. Maybe a smile amid the little glimmers of loss that intrude on the day.
Pandemic Haiku
When one day disap- -pears into the next without signposts hope erodes. Stop each day to cheer The heroes
New Ways for a New Time
This is a time of many “firsts.” I suspect this is true of everyone. Our church staff, like all congregations
After Easter…
Sometime I will have to gather my thoughts about this breathtaking revolution that has been forced on us in the
Good Friday
Morning coffee comes to our cells, We are not in jail, we are monks of the pandemic “Go to your
