I have something to say here

What words do you use when you have something to say yet your chosen vocation disallows the use of voice no auditory resonance allotted to the ones such as yourself Merton struggled from this platform to give us lines that change lives believing as he did that the...

Receiving an honor

It today’s language one might call it a gift -or grace or blessing, in some circles. The light of a bird with late spring exuberance thrumming itself against my kitchen sink sitting quietly for the clearest of a heartbeat before winging itself back through the...

Exercise a wider choice in my source of inspiration

Merton said. I steal his words and put them to work in my life as into the yard I step from the fog-damp doorway peek as I must into the almost-dawn morning birds I know no names for singing harmonized tunes awakening tufts of grass and delicate spindles of garden...

Hope

We have no religion. We have no race. We have no gender. We have no hope some days. We have faith.

middle ground

the margins are grey and forever in question, but somehow, you still know where your edges show up this is why sometimes you choose to walk the boundary lines within your own mind to each day rise and remain just there in the acreage provided for you at no cost when...