300 words a day

I need a psalm for sitting on the deck. Not because I’m good at it, of course. But because I am not.  +++ Blessed are the ones who sit quietly on the deck. They shall hear the acorns like hailstones on the deck. They shall see the crows circling. And circling. And circling. They shall […]

The other day, about 11 a.m., the coffee filter folded over as the water dripped into it. I didn’t know until I took the first sip of what was, to my taste, brown water. Because I’d been looking forward to a good cup of coffee, and because the folded filter was clearly my fault, I […]

God. We want you to tell us what to do. We want it as clear as a contract. If we do this, you will do that.If we eat this and abstain from that, you will do what we ask.If we vote this way or support that one, you will make us great.If we buy this or […]

Some things we clearly remember. Or at least, given the unreliability of memory, we think we remember. We retell stories of what we were doing, where we were, what happened. It happens with the sudden traumatic death of thousands. It happens with the death of individuals.  We tell the stories to keep the memory alive, […]

Many new parents keep the ink and skin prints of their infant child’s hands and feet. Often, in some craft project in school or scouts or Sunday school, hands are captured in plaster, with “happy mother’s day” scratched above in a font named “indecipherable.” I understand. We probably have one or the other around, too. […]