His seventy-something weary legs, climb aboard the yellow Cat. The big, orange ball in the sky warms the earth. Still he wears the same long sleeve and suspended jeans he’s had on nearly every day he’s worked our five acres. Quietly, the long arm of that metal machine scoops carefully, lifting garbage the owner before us […]
So many look away. They can’t stand the thought of people rioting in streets, anger, frustration or the world in upheaval. They have taken The Word that divides bone and marrow, soul and spirit, and stuffed it in some plastic bag, as if it need “protection”… When the Word is more powerful than a double-edged sword. […]
“Come here!” My Latin Husband used to say when we were newlyweds, married. Generally, his arms were wide open and his disposition was kind and welcoming. Yet, as the stubborn Norwegian-Irish, twenty-something, I would refuse, tilt my head up and insist, “No, YOU come HERE.” I know now, my non-submissive heart was wrong. However, I had […]
Need an escape from the current world state? Want to sit back, relax, and unravel yourself from the web of the latest news and current issues? Around noon I received “Love Without Borders”, by Anglea Braniff, a story about one woman’s brave journey out of anxiety, people-pleasing, and the box other people placed on her. Angela […]
“Like a caged animal.” I read her words and they stop me. I imagine the tiger in days gone past, trapped in a small cage at the Woodland Park Zoo. It gazed and locked eyes with my grade-school self. There was a fire in his eyes…One that was fierce and reckless, bold and resenting. I felt […]
Explosions sounded, fireworks blasted, hearts were gladened, no one expecting what the coming year might bring. As usual, pens jotted lists of resolutions, hearts imagined restored finances or relations, and minds conjured a year that would be better than the one we left. Yet, as the clock ticked, as the ball dropped, as the world turned […]