This is what comes of Word made flesh and water made wine two millennia ago. This is what comes of a world that tilted further, moving across the days toward seeming darkness until that dawn when empty death linens backdropped the cry of “Rabboni!” This is what has come in all the days since, the […]
Island Life
Thoughts on the Sea #24
The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth, it can lie down like silk breathing or toss havoc shoreward; it can give gifts or withhold all; it can rise, ebb, froth like an incoming frenzy of fountains, or it can sweet-talk entirely. As I can too, and so, no doubt, can you, and you. […]
Anticipating 2019
Somehow, I missed winter solstice this year. I like to mark these things, but I’d been wrapped up in work on our home after Florence, so it passed silently by me. The next day, I realized it in the early evening, as we left a building store. We’d been there for probably three hours and […]
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays
“The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.” Isaiah 9:2 Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!
Christmas News in Interesting Times
Y’all, the above statement is true, but it’s also true that we live in interesting times this holiday season, whether we’re beach dwellers or not. Case in point: I enjoy the movie A Christmas Story, especially Ralph’s narration (e.g., “Oh, rarely had the words poured from my pen and pencil with such feverish fluidity,” and […]
Thanksgiving Thoughts
When it comes to Thanksgiving, I’m pretty much with Charlie Brown. Like Charlie, “I can’t cook a Thanksgiving dinner. All I can make is cold cereal and maybe toast.” Well, maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration. I’ll probably end up making the mashed potatoes and I’m attempting a chocolate mousse this year. But, as […]