Fog sleeps deep on our open field, this crisp fall morning. And it’s almost like someone told heaven, the weight of my very own heart. A slippery, unfinished deck, flashes me back to last summer. Memories of sitting there, watching kids play, hearing their laughter dancing through my being. Yet, what was relaxing has now become […]
Gusts rage against the front of our faces as eyes squint for the big, yellow, school bus, coming up the hill. At only a few feet tall, I see the wind push and pull, take the mighty cedars and bend them low, without question or permission. And I wait, as his tiny voice, resonates through the […]
I read a post the other day, describing a statement from a man who aged out of foster care, and spoke at the 2013 CAFO Summit, mentioned by Stacey Jackson Gagnon from Ranson Israel. Here is his quote… “When I grew up in the orphanage it was Christians who came and built nicer buildings. Christians who […]
The world is filled with religious people. We see them; knees on mats, burning incense, sitting in their yoga positions, trying to relax away their negative energy. But religion doesn’t stop there: Education, money, business, good works, all vy for positons of being their own gods. Just watch any sporting event, and tell me the people […]
Thirty seconds. That’s all it took. Turning down by a smaller town nearby me. The first car had vapor, billowing from its windows. Like a chimney on fire, the driver pulls a pipe away from his mouth, from behind the steering wheel. It’s not even lunchtime. Yet, a few cars back, a lady stuffs what appears […]
It was as if the river spoke, that first time as a child my eyes locked on the sun glowing across the surface of that deep green shimmering water. I could hear something I didn’t recognize, in the city I lived in. Here, where trees swayed, the land ached, the earth called… The waters seemed to […]