April 29, 2021

Image: Kathryn Yingst The Hike I am attempting to defy an idiom. My current project is introducing my 13 year old schnauzer-terrier to a backpack. The kind that carries HIM, not vice versa. I imagine the dog people are reaching for popcorn. Even the casual dog...

April 22, 2021

Image: Nancy Davison Hot Date “I gotta go,” Nancy said at the zoom coffee hour after church. “I got a hot date in an hour and a half.” The hot date was lunch with me, at Norma’s Restaurant. Before the pandemic Nancy and I went to Norma’s after church almost every...

April 15, 2021

Image: Nina Bisognani The Journey Ahead In this ‘in-between time’ we walked with Christ and each other with self-reflection, simplicity and forgiveness, through tears, hope, joy and grace. We experienced the festival of Palm Sunday and the emotions of...

April 8, 2021

Image: Nina Bisognani Thoughts of Easter A pure white bunny Shiny new shoes  Eggs in baskets, or hidden outside.   Worshippers filling the church Spilling over into empty spaces. Heady perfumes Mixed with the scent of lilies.   Hearts filled with prayerful...

Easter Sunday, 2021

Images: Barbara Ryther and Nina Bisognani When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the...