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Yesterday afternoon, the setting sun tinted the fog a rosy pink and the trees, darkened by the rain, stood out stark against a backdrop of cotton candy. It looked like a scene straight out of a fairytale. Today great gusts of wind work to sweep away the...
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I didn’t have a cleric’s collar, a long robe or rosary. I lacked a book of formal rites and a heavy, dangling cross. Because of this, I envied the Catholic chaplain (a priest) who strolled the hospital halls with confidence, the concrete symbols of his authority...
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I love this image of Christ in the Wilderness gathering Wild Flowers painted by Stanley Spencer. I decided last weekend that I would try to write 500 words, five days a week for the month of March. And I nearly did this past week. But still, I came...
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“What this place needs is a box full of kittens.” This is what I told my fellow patients, my therapist, and anyone else who would listen in the psychiatric hospital this summer. I wasn’t really kidding. My kids were spending a good bit of time at a...
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(I’m happy to welcome Jody Lee Collins here today with a #SmallWonder guest post. Jody is part of the team that helps coordinate and support this community. She is a writer, poet, Grandmother, and substitute teacher who lives Seattle, Washington....
