
Preparedness is Key
With everything going on in the news this week, we might as well come right out and discuss what we’re all thinking about anyway: the

With everything going on in the news this week, we might as well come right out and discuss what we’re all thinking about anyway: the

Then we realized, as we hiked deeper in, that caterpillars were everywhere. On the leaves, on the trail, even hanging over the trail from little

I’d like to believe that when someone dies young, say from cancer at age 42, leaving a young family behind, I’d like to believe that

In the van on the way there, I wind up sitting in the way-back with my twelve-year-old niece. She is hopelessly bored, fiddling with her

Lines Composed in an Autumn Reverie, on Visiting the Japanese Garden one Friday Afternoon, October 2015.
Chrysanthemums
Huddled palms direct their longing west with

“I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh.”
— Ezekiel 11:19
Hardness has advantages. I think

Six-thirty a.m. Dark. No sound save the wind’s distant crescendos and calms. No traffic sounds. Slip out of bed to check the internet for closings:

To those among our readers who do not live in the wintry climes of North America, I apologize for another lament on this blog about

Every time I work in my yard, I feel as if I’m living out metaphors. Weeding? Obviously a metaphor for rooting out sin. Pruning? A

Therefore everyone who hears these words and puts them into practice is like the wise woman who followed the instructions on the internet when she