I cried myself to sleep last night. She turned eighteen. All my attempt to bottle up that infant staring the world straight in the face….futile. I thought I could stop time. I thought I was God. Confining that two foot, little girl in a flowing dress,and sparkly shoes in the crevasses of my mind. But that […]
“There is a King in every crowd”, Russell Wilson’s Dad used to tell him. For the Seattle Seahawks, we here in the Northwest like to think that KingRussell’s Dad is referring to, is us. We pride ourselves on blue and green. We throw parties and chant in a deep voice, fist pounding in the air, “Go […]
Relevant Magazine yesterday posted, male authors are read more often than women..even by women themselves. Another article talks about a group of abortion advocates pushing to “have the right” to a late term injection into the hearts of their pre-born, nine-month-old infants. Yet, our God given purpose was to reproduce. Still, sex-slave trade permeates the internet. How […]
His name was Jerry. Brown hair, strong features, few wrinkles, except those ones earned…from the suffering, few realized. I first met him visiting my Grandma in a nursing home. Â Her agitated, unappreciative….though I came a long way just to be with her. Â Weekly. He asked me to open his door. Â That was our first greeting. Looking […]
“Even heathens love those who love them.” These words usher in my new year. I cringe at the reality that love conditional is no love at all. My whole childhood, I used to live in a cage. Like a bird, imprisoned, in steel chains…the ones others placed on me. Still when truth pierces, we have two […]
It sits on the window seal these darkest of days. Letting light in…but keeping ice frozen on the other side of the pane. And flowers can bloom deep in winter, if we let them. My little one has concerns. The thrashing storms of life testing her roots, leaving her drooping. Even I cannot deny that. An […]