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Come spring

You flip and flutter and roll
across streets and yards
in the last year‘s drab worn dresses.

Church as a society

I listen to a lectionary podcast each week and one of the features is an included reading from "A Great Cloud of Witnesses", a book published by the Episcopal Church commemorating important figures in the Christian tradition (including Catholics, Anglicans,...

Strength in prayer

Our strength is in prayer as we commit to goodness and the transformation of the world

All will be well

“All will be well
You can ask me how but only time will tell”

Emotional infidelity

Infidelity means physical intimacy to most people, but why is that so bad? And what if it’s not the worst kind of infidelity? I would argue that emotional infidelity is most damaging to a relationship…

Keeping Score

It’s important, if you’re not keeping score, to remember to always give at every opportunity. Always offer to help. Always offer to pay. Always wash the dishes. Never remind someone that you paid last time. It’s always your turn.

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him. I find it could no otherwise be expressed than by making answer: Because it was he, because it was I.

Saying “I love you”

I love. I love earnestly, deeply, tenderly, and without any expectations of reward. I love easily. The way that I love has caused me some heartache and heartbreak over the years, but on the whole, I think I’m happier.

And they do not like you…

from "There Will Be No Peace" - W.H. Auden You must live with your knowledge. Way back, beyond, outside of you are others, In moonless absences you never heard of, Who have certainly heard of you, Beings of unknown number and gender: And they do not like you. Wow....

She is like the wind in spring

Sometimes the wind blows warm, sometimes it’s cold. Ususally, I have no idea which way the wind blows.

Di Anne Price

I'm thinking tonight of my friend Di Anne Price. I was an incredibly shy, quiet (even), 19 year old in Memphis when we met. I'd never known anyone like her -- she was so forward, everything was "out there" with her. She played the piano like it was part of her, she...