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Unchanging
She sat with her back to a cypress tree, Her front to the river and to the six children, fanned in front like a peacock’s tail. They stood and watched her blankly, not speaking. Her knees were drawn to her chest, her Shoulders jerking up and down, her Hands covering her face, her Palms pressing […]
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Since I liked the number 17, I scanned the list of sponsors’ names and found the seventeenth: “Ray W.” The list was written in various inks and in pencil on poster board and tacked with thumbnails to the paneled wall over the water fountain. I wrote down Ray W.’s phone number, sat through the hour-long […]
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Bootless cries
I cried out to God this morning and was surprised to hear not a thunderous response, nor a stern rebuke, nor a gentle cooing, but rather a velvet hush. No, “hush” is too soothing, and “velvet” is too luxuriant. It was more like a Mona-Lisa-smile of a sound. No judgment, one way or the other. […]
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“Such a river”
It sounded almost like a wedding march and, in a sense, it was. The organ in church this past Sunday at Point O’ Woods piped the first notes of “Glorious things of thee are spoken,” and in your mind you could see a bride walking down the aisle, smiling, her life-mate before her, beaming back. […]
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Grecian burger deluxe
Teak, who is 5, was beginning to feel the press of a long prayer (The “Prayers of the People”) at church, and it didn’t help that I, at the other end of the row, could hear him shout in a whisper, “But this is taking too LOOOONG!” which meant that people in front and behind […]
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