Been working on some art, fam. Well, this one is some older art, from the summer vacation I took with my cousin, Hanna, on the western side of the state in the dunes and trees and water and beauty of Lake Michigan. Bam: Te gusta? I call her, “Our Lady of Detroit,” made originally forContinueContinue reading “Our Lady of Detroit”
Category Archives: Faith
Are there rice crispy treats in heaven?
Heaven, like God, is not bound by time. My sister once nearly cried herself to sleep trying to wrap her elementary-schooled mind around the eternal nature of God and the experience scarred me, so, I don’t often try to ponder the implications of God’s everlasting presence. Besides, of course, that heaven will last forever. IContinueContinue reading “Are there rice crispy treats in heaven?”
My favorite story
I give tours of the old church where I work. This you knew. Often, because of how time works, I arrive to the front doors before my tour groups. Maybe they’ll be another five minutes. Maybe ten. Maybe they won’t show up at all (it happens sometimes). I give them fifteen minutes of leeway. InContinueContinue reading “My favorite story”
The poetry of life
Once, when I was a child, I memorized (because of school) a poem about the ocean. I had never seen an ocean; I live several hundred miles inland on a giant continent. But, I learned a poem about the ocean: the way the spray flies through the air, the way the wind sings, the wayContinueContinue reading “The poetry of life”
Can we stop freaking out about the AOD Coat of Arms already?
As far as I can remember I have only once been to a professional football game (American football). It was, from what I have been told, a really good game and it had this last-second turn-around and people talked about it for a few days. But what has stuck with me (for, having only beenContinueContinue reading “Can we stop freaking out about the AOD Coat of Arms already?”
On discerning
If you and I were both traveling vagabonds, but purposeful, more like pilgrims, but I was maybe older and more accustomed to traveling, and we met each other one night after dinner, over a fire in the back half-room of a hostel that overlooked a spindly but sincere garden, with dying embers and dying voicesContinueContinue reading “On discerning”
I HAVE BEEN WORKING ON LENT
I have a friend named Chris. We had been talking about what we were going to do for Lent, how we wanted to do a good job and get mad holy and stuff. There was this program you could join through this organization, but it was kind of pricey plus kind of bossy plus wentContinueContinue reading “I HAVE BEEN WORKING ON LENT”
TODAY’S CRAZY SAINT STORY
While I’m trying to write one poem every day for thirty days–YOU GUYS–break in the action here to talk about: St. Alice. I’m still researching saints for work-y things. LISTEN. St. Alice was born in Brussels, Belgium, same place as those amazing waffles and amazing chocolates. When she was SEVEN years old she apparently askedContinueContinue reading “TODAY’S CRAZY SAINT STORY”
What the Lord hath done
One time, when I was dressed in a floor-length gown and I was holding flowers, I sat in the front pew of a church and watched my brother marry a good woman. There is a prayer sometimes used in wedding masses, a special prayer for the wife, full of beautiful words and phrases and wishes–thatContinueContinue reading “What the Lord hath done”
New Year’s Report
Remember when it was a few months ago and I learned that the retreat I go on EVERY New Years for the past LITERALLY SEVEN OR EIGHT New Years was cancelled this year? I probably told you this. What I didn’t tell you is that it threw me into a leetle bit of a tailspinContinueContinue reading “New Year’s Report”
Seashell Nell 