You know what I hate? I hate it when people leave their stuff at my house. I’m not talking about loans here. I’m talking about the accidental leaving of stuff that belongs to them, that I must needs return (because it doesn’t belong to me). I don’t hold it against the leaver. Obviously, it’s an […]
Read more“The house of my soul is narrow, too narrow for you to come into it; enter it, and make it wider. It lies in ruins; rebuild it. There are things about it that will offend your eyes; I know it and confess it. But who will make it clean? To whom but you can I […]
Read moredo blatt do blatt These noises ricochet up the stairs from the basement, the playroom where the drum set now resides. dum digga digga digga digga Everett is practicing, the last task on his list of daily must-dos: homework, make bed, put away clean clothes, feed the cats, etc…. Practice the drums. dig-uh dig-uh duh […]
Read moreIt’s a week now that we’ve been back at school, and I’ve never been so efficient in my life. Last week, while I was teaching my Winterim course and working on grading those pesky exams (the ones I gave before Christmas break, the ones I didn’t really want to grade during Christmas break, the ones […]
Read more“You give and take awayYou give and take awayMy heart will choose to say,“Lord, blessed be Your Name.”-Matt Redman
Read moreA friend shared a story with me– years ago now– about an incident with her (how old was he at the time?) two-year-old son. She, like me, was at home with her children all day and they, like mine, enjoyed a snack from time to time. He was, it seems, very fond of cookies. Or […]
Read moreCatchy, huh? It’s the title (among other things) of the Winterim course I’m teaching this week and next. What’s Winterim? Well, at Trinity School, it’s the two-week period after Christmas break (and also, incidentally, after semester exams) and before the second semester begins. Rather than beginning with new material in these hazy, post-holiday days, we […]
Read moreWe lost our dear cat, Minnie, of 15 years in September 2007. It had been my understanding that cats could live to be upwards of 18 years old, so I wasn’t really ready At All for her to die. It was very sad for all of us. And we didn’t even think about getting a […]
Read moreThere is a great deal about a pregnancy that is No Longer mysterious to us here in the West, where developmental stages are recorded and reported with calculable accuracy, where ultrasounds provide three-dimensional images and news of gender, and where some illnesses and disabilities can be diagnosed and even treated before the baby is born. […]
Read morefrom spiralling ecstatically this proud nowhere of earth’s most prodigious nightblossoms a newborn babe:around him,eyes–gifted with every keener appetite than mere unmiracle can quite appease–humbly in their imagined bodies kneel(over time space doom dream while floats the whole perhapsless mystery of paradise) mind without soul may blast some universeto might have been,and stop ten thousand […]
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