A Winter’s Wind

Leaves are turning—skipping stones across the pond face down to the earth. A singing robin improvises soul. Tweets from the trees since the first breath after birth. How hollow are the winds that blow those trees? And how high do they rest on top of those trees? Does that bird know the words to it’s [...]

The Hours

This past summer, there was another loss in my family. My mother’s grandmother fell ill and in a short amount of hours, passed away. Within the past few years, my great-grandmother had been in and out of the hospital, and I never worried about death as an outcome. For some reason, since she was over [...]

The Man and the Angel

A long while back before I was a babe a dad told his son a tale without lies. He kept the me’mry fresh, warm and homemade of love and spirit as he said with a sigh: “Yes, I do recall a long time ago, when I was six, of a story told. A man met [...]