Today is my birthday. Another year older and closer to death. Death is a common theme the older I get. But that’s life for all of us. I was born on Sunday, 62 years ago. My mother said she went into labor while laughing at Jerry Lewis. She and my father were watching Hollywood orContinue reading Birthdays and Life
When Dawn Came (Revisited)
It was here one night, among white blossoms and junipers, that we lay and were touched while the rest of the world snored in their small beds. We breathed frost words to breezes on branches, breathing deeply in the deep woods with no earthly destination, hidden behind the pulse of dawn throbbing on a trigger’sContinue reading When Dawn Came (Revisited)
Sunday Dilemma
Once when she was twelve, an early Sunday romantic dream left her misbehaved and secretive by the time she and her parents left the house. They spent the bright and hot morning at Uncle Brian’s spacious and opulent Full Gospel Church of the Disciples of Christ. The place was quietly air-conditioned at a comfortable sixty-fiveContinue reading Sunday Dilemma
