Mowing the Lawn
Mowing the LawnIt has been a week sinceshe stopped breathing.Three days sincewe buried her.Back home,everything is fecund.The grass knowsno stasis.The mower roars,returning the grass to before.I...
View ArticlePicking Raspberries
RaspberriesI pick themas I nowbreathe,shave,shower: asleepWhose lungsbreathe this air,whose faceis shaven,whose skinreceives the warm water?do I dreamall this?Even the raspberrieshideunder...
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The Faces of Solace
Grief feels like a bag of flour tied around my waist. It doesn't so much hurt as deaden enjoyment, sap my energy, just plain drag the day along as though I were walking through knee-deep mud. I do not...
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30 Years together: A Hike to the Sea Lion
The Sea Lion is a natural rock formation near Thunder Bay, our home. We enjoyed the Lake, the rock, nature, and 30 years of marriage. We want for nothing...
View ArticleEnough
There comes a day whenthe last apple, the last berryclings to the branchas a mendicantto a closed door.Before the hope of springlies the word Enough.Though the air chillsand the sun dances...
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I, too, believe...
"I believe in jars of jellyput up by careful hands..."--Carrie Newcomer
View ArticleFrom the desk of...
My recent days have been a mix of delight and challenge, with rather more the latter, as gentle readers may know. I have made public some of the things, but very little else. This brings me to think...
View ArticleAn anti-parable (inspired by Matthew 20 and Luke 15)
A man offered himself for work one morning, along with a number of others, hoping to earn enough to feed their families. He had come a long way, from a village different from the town in whose...
View ArticleSurprised by...everything
This post could also be titled something like, "What I did in my September Vacation".My wife and I had been invited to a district meeting of our denomination in a community 4 hours' drive west of us,...
View Article24/7
"You are in your grieving journey every hour of every day!"I have a sister. We are not related in the least genetically, but we are siblings in that the mercies of the currents have brought us...
View ArticleA Lone
You wonder perhapswhy I choose to sit in a different roomwhen so often we have been companionableso often is not now but now is flexiblea worm seeking deeper earthas I donowI do not avoidso muchas...
View ArticleThis means something
Today, I got a job.Now, I'm actually retired, so I'm not talking about a full-time job like back in the day. This is a part-time occasional bit of work that will help our bottom-line and my pension...
View ArticleJust the Truth...
Today was a day that is impossible to categorize as one thing or the other.This morning, I reported to my new job at 8:15 AM, where I was shown where the work was, and what to do. I worked with someone...
View ArticleIn the Way of Wisdom and Foolishness
Lately, my dream factory has been in overdrive, and although I have several good friends who are adept at guiding dream interpretation, some of them are just baffling. That is fine. That they're...
View ArticleIt was one year ago today...
that we landed in Lod Airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, to begin 3 months' work with the Ecumenical Accompaniment Program in Palestine and Israel. We climbed sleepily out of the Air Canada jet, into the...
View ArticleSoon
Monday, I begin grief counselling with a volunteer through a local agency that offers this as a public service. I've gone through a bit of the placebo effect from learning of the appointment and that...
View ArticleNowhere
there is a place somewhere--no one told me, I just thought it was true--where all the broken bits go:promises I did not keep,wrong decisions and bad judgments,hurts I thrust on others,unrealized and...
View ArticleIn the Eye of the Hurricane
"Grief comes in waves", says Dr Kay Jamieson Redfield, in her memoir, "Nothing was the Same".Dr. Redfield was distinguishing grief from depression, because the grieving process is often mistaken for...
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