I used to wear the suspenders. You know, the ones with horizontal rainbows. (Back when rainbows didn’t have duel meanings.) I used to separate my fingers; pointer and middle, with ring and pinky, and shake them furiously up and down with my cousin Kristy saying, “Na Nu Na Nu”. As children, “Mork from Mindy” was a […]
He giggles upstairs. Him and the daughter who sat, distraught on a bench with me many weeks ago. (See story below) A dark skinned boy his age, sits cardboard-like, on my eighteen year-old’s night stand. “Whose that?” I peek my head around the corner, and two children, eighteen and five, face each other, half curled up, […]
I get the call. “She is dead.” I reel for breathe and step back, to keep myself from swaying over at the shock of it all. “Really?” I question. Racking my brain to think, “What’s the date? Is this April’s fools day? Is there cameras hidden watching me? Am I on some reality t.v.?” But, even […]
Newton. A word forever marked. Branded. Tattooed in our heads. With images of dead children. Children and death. Painful. Synonymous. The world seemingly. Unjust. Why some. Wake children. And hold them close this morning. While others will not. And as mere men, we reason. Try to unscramble the, “Why’s”. Justify. Unthought of behaviors with. Psychology. Bad […]
Why is life so hard sometimes? Treading along the pathway, looking down. Searching for hope in the world. Around us. Fighting fear. Blind with dread. Struggling for hope. Reasoning our life. Our situations. Our circumstances in our heads. I am…it seems. We live. As if Jesus is still dead. And the hope we once had. […]
It’s been awhile. But, then, it’s Mother’s Day. And she has no children. I creep in. Unnoticed. Just a silhouette. Me. Her niece. Forgotten a long time ago. All because of Alzheimers. But, this time. So close to death. Her mis-wired head….leaves her with no words. And she is absolutely beautiful. And why is the silence…..most […]