I’m still tip-toeing around this place like an uncertain guest. Stopping to pause at every window, checking to see that the sky is still there. Stepping across the road to retrieve the mail, the old corn field opens before me like the ocean. ...
Baxter: “You’ve made me strong, Mr. Molesly. Your strength has made me strong.” Mr. Molesly: “My what?!” // (Season Four Season Finale SPOILER alert) “Oh, Mr. Molesly.” This is what we said again and...
For as the heavens reach beyond earth and time, we swim in mercy as in an endless sea. (Psalm 103:11) // We sat together in sunny silence as snow lay all around like a smooth and glassy sea and over the waters of white danced the songs of the birds. ...
In the morning, after the twins chug their milk and the heavy wet diapers of the night before are deposited in the already overflowing trash, I sit in the corner of the couch with Isaiah to look at a book. We flip through the pages of a National Geographic...
“I told you about this, right?” he asks, “About how I don’t breathe?” He said it casually as we stood together washing and cooking in the kitchen. “No,” I said, with a rueful smile, “you didn’t tell me you stopped...
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