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On the Samaritan

When she told them that He had told her “Everything she had ever done”~ I’ve always assumed that was all the bad things –five husbands and all– But, “everything” includes more, does it not? Maybe He also told her all of the beautiful things she had done, All the selfless ways She brightened the worldContinueContinue reading “On the Samaritan”

I HIT UP OMAHA

I have this thing where I just gotta SEE THE WORLD, you know?? So, a few weeks ago, I messaged my sister, now-living-in-Omaha, all, “Hey, do you ever take visitors?” and, wouldn’t you know it, sometimes SHE DOES, and a plane ticket later and I was on my flight to Omaha. Came, saw, conquered. FavoriteContinueContinue reading “I HIT UP OMAHA”

My newest lino

I have several ideas for linoblock cuts. One I’ve already started, and it’s in my room. It’s the largest one I’ve ever done and I started it, got a little scared, and stopped. I knew I wanted to make a different one, too, simpler, and I purchased the block for the simpler one. That, too,ContinueContinue reading “My newest lino”

The problem is that…I want to do everything

….and I want to do more than is even possible. I’m writing a blog post right now. BUT I WANT TO WRITE A PLAY! I went to an aerial class tonight. BUT I WANT TO GO TO AN ACRO CLASS AND A DUO-AERIAL CLASS! I carved a linoblock last week. I HAVE FOUR MORE IDEASContinueContinue reading “The problem is that…I want to do everything”

On our history

An Easter poem The lie of the Garden With apple and the snake Was that God didn’t really love us, And we listened, with an ache An ache that tore us from God As in sorrow we left. (Though God, with heart-wide-rendered Gave us second-chance, through death). The lie of the sacrifice Of Abraham andContinueContinue reading “On our history”

I didn’t expect it to look like this

On the eve of my thirty-first birthday, I sat around the kitchen table my parents bought early in their marriage, and I sat there with two other women as we hashed out, after a prayer to the Holy Spirit, a conference in the late fall for men and women addicted to pornography, for men andContinueContinue reading “I didn’t expect it to look like this”

Tonight

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”

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”