Aug 7, 2022 | Reflections
Image: Sudie Blanchard Sparrow’s Hope How does the morning greet you? Is it the sparrow’s hope that calls you from slumber? The sigh of a contented bee as it drapes the peony? The indigo sky raises its amber gaze in welcome; The tall oak responds limbs...
Aug 4, 2022 | Reflections
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Jul 8, 2022 | Reflections
This Spring, our Wednesday Book Group read Walter Brueggemann’s Praying the Psalms. Brueggemann describes the Psalms as radically vulnerable language from the experience of joy, delight, grief, anguish, fear. That language is offered to God as praise and, often, as...
Jun 9, 2022 | Reflections
Image: Barbara Ryther Dax A new baby recently joined our extended family. In the eyes of his parents, he is perfect. But in the eyes of the world, he is not. Dax has Down Syndrome. He is adorably cute. Like his mother he has reddish blonde hair and blue eyes. Like...
Jun 9, 2022 | Reflections
N.R. Davison, Child’s Play, ca. 2014, linocut. De Capo Ad NauseumPoem on the Texas Shooting A month ago, I wrote a poem. Sorting out my grief Violence and killings weighing heavy In a world with too little light. I processed unbelief: So many gone so fast. A...
May 14, 2022 | Reflections
My Grandmother’s Table The occasionswere silky and ribbonedlike gifts—platters and peopledraping the dining roomin holiday flourish—the silverof my nostalgia. But the textureof my childhoodemerged from the grainof four simple chairsaround Mama’s kitchen table.It was...