Nov 15, 2022 | Reflections
Image: Barbara Ryther In the Fall Apples are at their best in the fall… I look for smooth, red skin. No bruises, please. Honey Crisps for eating Macs for sauce Cortlands for crisps or pies. Today is a good day for a crisp. At the farm stand I buy six...
Nov 2, 2022 | Reflections
Image: Barbara Kautz The Lion and the Sparrow At the arc of dawnin that blue and burning placebetween what wasand what is yet to besits a lion. With shoulders like mountainsand flames for eyesthe lion awaits morningas if calling it into being. So, too, awaits the...
Nov 2, 2022 | Reflections, Updates
Image: Barbara Ryther Thoughts from the beach: Grace I’ve been thinking about the most recent Medications post, about how hard it can be to say “I’m sorry” particularly when the world seems unforgiving. To say “I forgive you” is also hard, but for different reasons. ...
Sep 30, 2022 | Reflections
Image: Nina Bisognani I’m Sorry Most merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as...
Sep 15, 2022 | Reflections, Updates
Image: Kirsten Kautz Earworms Earworm: a piece of a song or music that runs constantly through a person’s mind. According to Google nine out of ten people have earworms. That is, they hear a catchy tune and all or part of it goes around and around in a person’s head...
Aug 21, 2022 | Reflections
Image: Nina Bisognani Girl at the Beach She was a tiny little thing when I birthed her:six pounds, eleven ounces , and barely nineteen inches long.She already had a shock of dark brown hairand sharp little fingernails. I almost didn’t make itto the hospital in time. ...