Maybe

Maybe we have all the answers. We just don’t know it. Maybe it is not that hard. The following is an excerpt I wish to remember, mull over, and perhaps write about: Leisure, the Basis of Culture: An Obscure German Philosopher’s Timely 1948 Manifesto for Reclaiming Our Human Dignity in a Culture of Workaholism “We […]

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Becoming Fawn

She is 27 years old.  The year is 1977. The place is Gainesville, Florida, United States. In college, classified as a “student over the traditional age”, she is asked to write a paper about her religious journey. The course is Comparative Religions with Professor Bernard McFadden, a former Catholic priest.   There is a restlessness […]

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Lost Yet Found

I cry out to the world, “Find me! Feed me! Cradle me! Love me!” I am an abandoned kitten. It is very lonely in these woods. Some really special people drive right by me at the fast-food drive-through lane where I hide in the shrubbery. Perhaps they do not hear me, I think. I get […]

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What If?

  We are many stories ~ while some are not so pretty, there are many for which I am grateful. I sometimes endure severe depression combined with thoughts of weariness so severe I find I no longer have the energy to live. (My friends with military training call it life termination and this makes me […]

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Listening

Notes travel to the weathered shore of my dreams; Reaching over the sands toward lightness of time, day, and lives unabridged Where living reminders of Spectres of childhood, safe yet courageous Stand tall as living memorials to A time long gone A people long gone A hurt still remembers Still yearns.   Photography & Poetry […]

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