Last week I developed a bit of a cold and, despite wanting to play music and circus and all other levels of party...my body was kind of like: eh...or you could lay in your bed forever and ever and think about all the things you want to do but have zero energy to do them.Continue reading "Oh hai"
Eucalyptus
Two hundred years ago, in 2011, I walked a bit of the Camino de Santiago. Sometimes life has a way of surprising you, you who show up with skeletal "plans" or maybe "visions." Ha. Hahahahaha. Almost a year before I walked the Camino, my brother had sent me a link to the Wikipedia article aboutContinue reading "Eucalyptus"
Get your QUICK TAKES HERE!
-1- YOU. GUYS. I am obsessed with a new icon--that of St. Anne and Joachim. So, the names aren't exactly Biblical, but, there is a long-standing tradition that Anne and Joachim were the parents of the Blessed Virgin a.k.a. Mary a.k.a. the mother of Jesus. Also, fun fact, St. Anne is the patroness of Detroit.Continue reading "Get your QUICK TAKES HERE!"
Abundant Grace
Sometimes I wonder to myself, "How do people even get married?" Weddings seem so bizarrely beautiful. This man and this woman, promising lives and fidelity to each other forever and ever (well, until they die, at least). But how? How do people look at each other and decide this? How do they get to aContinue reading "Abundant Grace"
“The best we have to offer”–A thought on ministry
Last summer I went and stayed at an all-girls Catholic sleep-away camp. For a week. Honestly, it was probably because they were short on helpful adult-chaperone-ladies, so I was asked by someone who knew someone and then, wouldn't you know it: bam. A week in a cabin full of 13/ 14 year-old girls. Now, myContinue reading "“The best we have to offer”–A thought on ministry"
Sto lat, leetle blog
Sometimes I do this. I letcha know the blog behind-the-scenes. Basically, I have access to some basic stats about my readers (i.e. my computer knows, for instance, that you might be in the U.S. Past that, though, I know nothing. I don't know your address or your favorite color or even YOUR FAVORITE DINOSAUR ANDContinue reading "Sto lat, leetle blog"
On my sister’s dreadlocks
Once, when we were little and playing dolls in the basement, my sister softened her voice to the quiet tone reserved for confessionals and told me that she had asked mom if she (my sister) could get her hair sectioned into the tiny braids that are then decorated in pony beads, like the hair ofContinue reading "On my sister’s dreadlocks"
La luna nublada
I was asked to share, at a meeting, what my experience in Philadelphia was like. So I wrote these jumbled words. Enjoy. ============================================================= The moment that sticks with me Is the moment, under the clouded moon, where they wouldn’t let me in to the gated-off city center, so instead I stood, shivering/ stranded/ crestfallen inContinue reading "La luna nublada"
Nehemiah was cup-bearer to the King.
Sometimes, on some days, I drive my car un-mapped through the city; I weave through Detroit free of any direction except for the basic understanding of north-south-east-west. Yesterday was one of those days. The air was mild, the sky clear, And I drove with my windows down and my arm out-stretched and my hair blowingContinue reading "Nehemiah was cup-bearer to the King."
On flowers and summer and Detroit
I wish the frigid, promised kiss of winter didn't accompany the sun of these late-summer days Because then I could just open my arms unconditionally to the golden, warm haze of these too-short afternoons. Today I got off of work, carrying a basket of supplies to my far-parked car. I smiled at the blue sky,Continue reading "On flowers and summer and Detroit"
Seashell Nell 