Was going to go to : Circus class Instead I felt a little under the weather due to a few suspected culprits: Maybe ate some gluten Maybe got sneezed in the face by a li’l baby Maybe cleaned the bathroom at work and didn’t wear gloves and some of the floor-suds splashed into my faceContinueContinue reading “Tonight”
Monthly Archives: March 2018
A Catechism
Who made us? God made us. God who made the Rocky Mountains and the way grass smells after it has been cut and the way breath turns to curling fog in the cold also made us. He had light dance through prisms and wind rustle through leaves and moss grow on places like roots andContinueContinue reading “A Catechism”
A prayer about planning
The hard thing about making a five- or ten-year plan, God, is that: you’re much better at imagining than I am. You possess working knowledge of all of the hairs on all of the heads of every human who ever was, is, or ever will be, plus you direct the cosmos–all the stars and planetsContinueContinue reading “A prayer about planning”
A small price to pay
We, familiar with this kind of thing, knew the cost. We knew we would wake up Ill-rested, Tired, Eyelids swollen, Sleep inadequate, Head slightly pulsing from the late housrs and the wine of the night before. A night in a basement-restaurant And stories of our youth And memories gilded with laughter And our passionate hopesContinueContinue reading “A small price to pay”
24. The exercise of prayer
“What do you think is the most affective form of exercise?” The question was posed to me by my sister, a student of athletics and medicine at the graduate level. I started suggesting a list to her, “Aerobics? Swimming? Triathlon?” Finally, she gave the answer, “It’s the one that you DO.” Oh, of course. HowContinueContinue reading “24. The exercise of prayer”
Seashell Nell 