September 26, 2025 At the Turning It is the turning seasonwhen oaks and hickoriesrising skywardflutter leavesgreen and stubbornwhile maples and dogwoodsslip on red, russet, and goldand the last of the hummingbirdssip from the nectarand one by onethe last of the firefliesflit by the half-opened windowand the last of the sunflowersbrilliant and brightfade like starsin aContinueContinue reading “At the Turning: A Poem”
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Saturday of Holy Week ~ Silence
April 19, 2025 For years now, every Saturday before Easter Sunday, the final words of Prince Hamlet as he lay dying come to me: “The rest is silence.” In regard to Holy Week, the false conviction, illegal trial, and immoral death sentence of an innocent man are over. And so we wait . . .ContinueContinue reading “Saturday of Holy Week ~ Silence”
Advent 2024: The Lynching of Robert Mosley
(Image of Robert Mosley painted with red clay from the soil of Madison County, Alabama, United States) Advent Day Nine, December 9, 2024 This past Saturday, I attended a sobering and unusual event: the dedication of the first memorial marker for the ten lynching victims in my home county alone, the last lynching in myContinueContinue reading “Advent 2024: The Lynching of Robert Mosley”
Advent 2024: Week Two
Advent Day Eight, December 8, 2024 Here we are already, a week into this journey of waiting as one in this season of darkening days, waiting for the winter solstice, waiting for Christmas, waiting for Hannukah, waiting for a new year to begin, waiting to see what life will be like in 2025, waiting toContinueContinue reading “Advent 2024: Week Two”
The Waiting: A Poem of Advent
Advent Day 2: December 2, 2024 The Waiting ~ A Poem of Advent “For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, ‘Do not fear. I will help you.'” (Isaiah 41:13) O, Isaiah, ancient prophet of doom, prophet of ancient hope,your proclamations resound like cymbalsjarring this stillContinueContinue reading “The Waiting: A Poem of Advent”
Advent 2024: Waiting as One
December 1, 2024 Welcome, any and all, to this season of Advent, the four-week period of waiting for the Light to be born. Whether you’re Christian, Jewish, Muslim, a believer of anything or of nothing, you are welcome here. We’re all alive, breathing as one, at this same moment, on this same planet, our common aches,ContinueContinue reading “Advent 2024: Waiting as One”
The Art of Waiting
The year of 2020 will no doubt go down in history with many different names, none very complimentary, but if I could name it, I’d call it “The Year of Waiting.” We have all waited to see how a pandemic would unfold, having never experienced one before. We have waited, and are waiting, to beContinueContinue reading “The Art of Waiting”
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