Monthly Archives: March 2016

516 The Holy Tunnel Jan.,2014

Digging through the universe, a peep hole to a hint of what lies at the core. Holiness flows through the tunnel God bore so we may bathe in the Sabbath Day.

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515 Once in a Blue Moon Jan. 2014

The old man wandered into the Blue Moon Gentlemen’s Club around 2:AM, a worn-like-he-was-lost look on his face. Five ladies were still working, taking turns dancing for the six grungy patrons sitting in the room shrouded in smoke and gloom. … Continue reading

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514 Poet to poets Jan.9, 2014

There are millions of poets who never wrote a word. But those who mine for golden words to brighten darkness, toil to strip cataracts from eyes, thrust surprise into jaded lives, salute those earthy bards, wish them revelation in their … Continue reading

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513 Right of Passage Jan. 1, 2014!!!!!

What right have we for rites of passage when so many die before their rite time? What right for a girl to feel blood tide on her thighs when so many, for no crime but being who they are, lie … Continue reading

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512 Oz Dec. 28, 2013

“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” or, for that matter, the Giant, green on the screen. Both are graven images any might see, each sighting becoming a focus for liturgy. Pantheists, or Poly, trin or unitarian, Christian, … Continue reading

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511 Progressive Divinity Dec. 24, 2013

Trinitarians are, in truth, serial unitarians, watching Divinity evolve through time to, “What! Know ye not that the kingdom of heaven is in you?” From one God made manifest in a burning bush to the Next, whose manifest destiny is … Continue reading

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510 DRC Dec. 10, 2013

A visit to the Dutchess Radiology Clinic is not, QED, deaths first quiet tap on the door. Some brain tumors are benign and extractable. Not all coughs are caused by cancer. But, always, the possibility… Sitting in the waiting room … Continue reading

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509 Family relations Nov.22,2013

My grand-niece Genevieve, named for my mother, laughed as we played on the living room rug. I hope Mom was laughing as she heard her name repeated, “Genevieve! Genevieve! Fly! Fly!” My two year old grand-niece kneed me in my … Continue reading

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508 Loves variations Nov. 2013

I love you. I live the time we took falling into love. I love the path we walk, winding serenely through a pinball world. I love our life. I love looking forward to finding our love again our next time … Continue reading

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507 Virtues revisited Nov. 2013

“Don’t be to righteous. Why should you die before your time?” asks the wise one. Loyalty, cold bloodless spike empaling diversity! Fidelity, predictable Horatio fearful to risk change! Courage! Wastrel, spending lives like petty cash! Chastity, spinsters keyless lock baring … Continue reading

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