The Weeping Cherry Tree

This spring, the branches of the weeping cherry tree across the street hung low, heavy with beauty and swirled around the trunk like a woman’s skirts, shifted by the slightest breeze. This too is how my children move, teeming ’round my legs as we set out...

Origami

I slide carefully crafted prayers under heaven’s door – reasonable requests plainly scrawled   on flat, white sheets of paper. These, God takes and turns,  fold by fold, into something new, sending them back in the...

In Silence, they Whisper

Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was...

Abraham and Judas

Abraham and Judas How often have I exchanged the promise of a good and spacious land for something narrower or betrayed the possibility of freedom for the certainty of thirty pieces of silver? Photo rights:...

We Have No Maps

“We have no maps, nothing but the inner directions that seem to emerge as we engage the questions and risk moving toward the dream.  Together we will learn where we’re going.”    – Judy Cannato The man I now love invited me...
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