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I can get meta-physical with the best of them. This week’s poem could be called ‘let’s get un-meta-physical and roll around in the dirt’. Big bow of thanks to Gautami Tripathy of Rooted for this week’s One Single Impression prompt, dropped. I bought a lovely 1944 vintage cottage in 2004 in Bend, and have done [...]
The year is 1909. What a difference one ‘short’ century makes! These statistics have not been fact-checked, at least by me! The average life expectancy was 47 years. Only 14 percent of the homes had a bathtub. Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone. There were only 8,000 cars and only 144 miles [...]
Anthropomorphizing God and God’s kingdom is the best most of us, maybe any of us, can do. Similes, metaphors and other analogies are thus the honest homily. This post is part of a synchroblog of other bloggers writing on ‘the kingdom of God’. Check out the links to their posts at the end of this [...]
My friend offered up her life on Friday. It was legal, assisted. She was in horrific pain. Her spirit ready and lovely beyond compare. Today little tolerance is in me for those who would say she is hell-bound or at risk of bad karma. Said all her goodbyes said her ‘I’m sorries’ said her ‘thank [...]
This week the Virtual Tea House has been graced by receiving an award called ‘Noblesse Oblige’. From the Oxford English Dictionary: the term noblesse oblige “suggests noble ancestry constrains to honorable behavior; privilege entails to responsibility.” Being a noble meant that you had responsibilities to lead, manage, etc. You were not to simply spend your [...]
Patti Digh, over at 37 Days, seeks to live her life with her heart on the edge of it. She inspires and challenges us all to do the same. Her post from yesterday is 37days: Guide your tweenbot to safety and starts with a story of an older man who collapsed on a sidewalk in [...]
Watching my husband cooly encircle my/not his 15 year old Valkyrie girl-child out of control out of the boundaries enraged, lashing humbles and steps me back from my own edge. Later He and she are instep to instep ready for engagement the rules are pointed and brutish. Learned from him, I firmly step between and [...]
Well, I am off to Haiti next Tuesday. I don’t know quite I why am going except that I am part of a cathedral that is seeking to develop an international outreach, and a couple of members have been in Haiti and really, really wanted us to get started there. Then it turned out that [...]
Each milli-second is new cells and breath mutate. Each brilliant sparkling particle of a unit of time is a world unto itself. Our penchant for categorizing and likening to keeps us from the absolute potential of this moment. And then… there’s the gulps of recognition the stinging tears where it’s like against like. My grandson [...]
…to be well-read. They predict that the average person in the native English speaking world has only read 6 of these books. Now that is a statement of some sort of crumbling of world order, wouldn’t you agree? I’m wondering in the US if it’s even 6. Painful to think about. I’ve highlighted the ones [...]
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