Five things I learned AFTER being a priest, Canon and monk
When I interview people about why they fund, and go, to church (for an upcoming memoir,) the answers I get never cease to amaze me. And in truth, they were…
Three Roses
In my youth, I emerged from a dysfunctional and alcoholic family unaware of my wounds and deformities. My father had barely spoken to me over my first 18 years of…
The second family
It was overwhelming to receive hundreds of emails (literally, I stopped counting after 200) high-fiving me about something I wrote in a recent thought-offering. I tend not to be the…
The Lusitania Watch
In 1915, at 2:12 pm, the unthinkable happened to a member of my family. The ship on which he was sailing was hit by a German torpedo. Family lore says…
hospitality and the abdomen
The human abdomen can be so lovely. The Crucifixion Bas Relief, Clay with wax resist. April 13, 2019. Preparation for Good Friday firing. Charles LaFond, Potter We, each of us,…
…and…
This is Kai-the dog. He goes with me wherever I go and challenges with his very being this idea of an angry, domesticated God we seek to describe. Kai-the-dog has…
“The Letter to the Americans …The Word of the Lord?”
In the blizzard of emails, text-messages and tweets, perhaps we have lost touch with the beauty of a letter. Last week I was in the stationer’s shop. I was…
letting go; and snacks
Being busy unlearning things takes time and snacks. One of the things I am learning about in my dotage is the tremendous importance of the occasional snack. Some tea in…
the balanced load
Kai-the-dog loves nothing more than to find, and subsequently carry, a very large branch on our walks. He keeps an eye out for one the way we humans are always…
take and eat …this peach …on buttered cinnamon toasted bread
Kai and I have begun to fall into some routines. One is watching the sun rise to the accompaniment of the roosters which is, each morning, like an kind of…