Learn from the things that are already in the place where you wish you were not. – Padraig O’Tuama in The Shelter, (p.9) A dead lightbulb has been sitting on our kitchen island for more than a week. Before that, it was in the light fixture above our dining...
Lord, I curl in thy grey gossamer hammock that swings by one elastic thread to thin twigs that could, that should break but don’t. – Denise Levertov // Our eight-year-old boys strung a thin nylon hammock between two trees and hung there together for...
Every once in a while, I have the opportunity to teach a full semester’s worth of introductory biblical studies materials over a period of fifteen days. This, January, is one of those once-in-a-whiles. Which is why I haven’t been posting much...
We go up to heaven and down to hell a dozen times a day – at least, I do. And the discipline of work provides an exercise bar, so that the wild, irrational motions of the soul become formal and creative. – May Sarton in Journal of a Solitude Seated...
I started painting three years ago because our new-old farm house had large wall spaces; wide, paneled surfaces. I started painting because we couldn’t afford to buy art to hang. Driving home from the grocery store one day with the twins buckled in to...
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