Text a reflection on Mark 13:1-8 Video version is available following the text Thirty seven or eight years after Jesus was executed the Roman army reduced the Temple to ruins and conducted a … [Read more...]
Take A Millennial To Lunch
This post first appeared in the weekly column, "Denim Spirit," from The Finger Lakes Times (NY), July 26, … [Read more...]
Ode to Karl
He was my therapist for five years, off and on but only because I was chickenshit. I don’t know how old he was, but I’m guessing he had me by at least fifteen years – just enough to keep me almost … [Read more...]
Confused
Dream by Cameron Miller Halfway in halfway out squeezed in the middle by a dream-catcher.Lowered here by sleep into this floppy dimension chairs are wobbly and misshapen, people wear wrong … [Read more...]
Naked Blonde in yard hears nothing
Stroking her soft blond hair, she looks into my soul with pooled brown eyes – shutters of light to bring the world inside but never allowing the inner animal of her soul to be seen by me. We live … [Read more...]
One foot in the past, one in the present, imagining a future
After Martin Luther King Day I find myself humming or whistling “Lift Every Voice” for a week, the same as with any of a dozen carols from Christmas Eve until New Year’s. This year was a particularly … [Read more...]
What do you do when you meet a giant?
One generation grew up believing in the Lone Ranger and that one person could change the world, while a newer generation grew up knowing that a couple of people could blow up the center of American … [Read more...]
A Wednesday Rant: Loving Judas
Archive Rant Adapted from a presentation delivered to a 12-Step Worship in 2012 “We do not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious.” (C … [Read more...]
What we need in an ugly time
There is so much to rant about, so much. It is impossible to know where to begin when the culture and economy are skewed toward lunacy in such bald faced ways. From adoration of guns to violent … [Read more...]
A Power Greater than Ourselves: Lament or Benediction?
Water dances and the soul delights. Water sings, too. Even a tiny creek sings and sometimes those most of all with their furious gurgling, trickling, and chortling giggles. Bigger streams, arroyos, … [Read more...]