Anna should not open the door for the beautiful woman in black. How many times have her parents warned her against opening the door for strangers while she is home alone? Up until now, she has obediently ignored the various delivery people, politicians, salesmen, missionaries — and yes, even Girl Scouts, with their promises of…
In the beginning, there is a Garden; and in the center of this Garden, there is a pool surrounded on eight sides by a low wall of smooth white stone; and the pool is filled by a clear fountain that rises from deep within the marrow of things. A cut in one of the walls…
Also in this issue: In Other Words: Martha, Martha; Bishop Barron: Breaking Through the Buffered Self · News: Writing News; No Shortage of People in Need; Bike Saga, Part 2 · Postscript: A Midsummer Garden
A person’s bookshelf is another window into their soul. Jerry Windley-Daoust What follows is a (very) partial list of the books I’ve read over the years. While ebooks and online ordering make it easier to track the books I’ve read in the past ten years or so, prior to that I have nothing but my…
A kid stole my bike out of my garage last week. On the upside, while the thief took my bike, he didn’t leave me entirely empty-handed. Over the past few days, I’ve been making an accounting, and here’s what I figure he added to my inventory.
In this issue: About Those Kids Who Crashed Our Neighborhood Potluck · Bishop Daniel Flores on Guns and Despair · A New Family in Huff House · My Soundtrack This Week
In this issue: Birding By Ear · Robin Wall Kimmerer: Science Needs More Wisdom, Not More Data · Why I Was MIA Last Week; CW Website Update · Mourning Doves & Engineers
In this issue: Maybe the past isn’t as lost to us as we think · The World Needs More Hypocrites (Starting with You) · Killing the Monster · The Bizarre Concrete Vision of Fred Smith
In this issue: Is There a Job Title for What I Do? · The Blackfoot Confederacy and Me · Because the World Needs a Poem about Shoveling · 1980s Nuclear Apocalypse Movies Should Finally Spur Us to Ban Nuclear Weapons
Any square foot of Earth is worthmore than all the snow-white Moon;why, this spot on which you standis crowded and crammed with the memoryof seeds and stones, blood and bones,birth and breath, and yes,not a little death;and the footprints of those who,like you, passed this way & paused,blessing this sacred ground. Image credit: Photo: “Light Steps” by PetarPaunchev /…
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