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”
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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”
Heart in tune
My brother has all of the musical stuff. He’s the one who bought me my ukulele. He’s the one who wakes up and goes downstairs to strum a few riffs through the orange amps in the basement. The other day, I walked downstairs, to where he was playing on one of his electrical guitars, andContinueContinue reading “Heart in tune”
Discerning Lake Michigan
They say that the waves on my beloved Lake Michigan reached a height of twenty feet last week–crests of far-flung fresh spray spouting into the grey sky. I love the Great Lakes: their wide expanses of blue touch me every time I travel to see them–I could look at them for hours. Often, on vacation,ContinueContinue reading “Discerning Lake Michigan”
Seashell Nell 