May 13, 2016 | nature, prayer
Creator God, Playful Spirit: let my faith have the simple confidence of a dandelion — content to smile like the sun when blooming, satisfied to be relocated & replanted by the wind in fading, unapologetic in taking root where it is not wanted or expected,...
May 6, 2016 | images of God, Jesus, prayer
Tree of Life, I cling to you like a vine, wrapped up in you and lifted up by you toward the Sweet Sun that nourishes me. Spring Silverbell, I study your beauty to learn its resistance to plague and plight, to ring with joy in shadowed undergrowth. Hidden Root, I...
May 2, 2016 | books, Monday Muse, review
The image of a sweatshirt hoodie on its cover should provide a significant clue as to the stark portrait painted in Citizen: An American Lyric, by Claudia Rankine, but the book’s pages and words are so smooth that you might be lulled into an imagination that the...
