Category: Writing

Writing

Butterfly Rain

Life flourishes, 
The earth expands, 
And heaven reaches down, 
In rain and dew,
In response to your wings. 

Writing

Haunting

I wish you would haunt me,
Little one, 
With all your playful fervor.

Living, Writing

Nativity

“Is this call,
To come unto Him,
The invitation to our own
Nativity?
An opportunity for rebirth and
Becoming
A new people, 
Keeping a new covenant 
And ushering in
A new world.”

Living, Writing

Earning My Eulogy

“Because feeling weak is just an idea,

Like worry, or fear, or hope.

And ideas can change

The course of history,

And my own mind.

So while I breathe

And while I stand 

Upon the ground instead of lie within it,

I’ll earn that obituary.”

Living, Writing

Nana’s Aprons

“The name she goes by in each part of our family doesn’t seem to matter much; it is what the name has come to mean that has made all the difference. “

Farming, Living, Writing

Father, Farmer, Philosopher

I picked up my fork and went to work beside him on the hillside, blood and sweat mingling under the Midwestern sun. He smiled at me and threw another thistle. “Farms and people need caretakers,” He said.