Tag Archives: remembrance

Holy Week 4 – April 17

Holy Week 4 the maundy’s mandates call us again   to remember by doing to recall by caring   bread wine feet souls the simplest things   for telling the most elegant of stories. ———————–

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Lent Prayer 8 – March 12

Lent Prayer 8 Jesus Mary and Joseph, Moses Mohammed and Buddha   the history books lie when they leave you out   as if all those lives never found life   or shaped the world, in and through you.   … Continue reading

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hi mom – February 4

2.4 hi mom. I brought you this nice man, and this book I wrote about the strong women of the  bible.   you taught me all this, praying on your knees each day, breathing through your pain to help me … Continue reading

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family crockery – January 29

  1.29.2014 family crockery out of boxes, chipped rose-patterned tea pot, crystal sherbet glass caked with dust of the years, ceramic beer stein with company logo for service well done, china from england, silver tarnished to dark fantasy duskiness.   … Continue reading

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all saints – November 1

11.1 brass boxes, ashes and names, surround the altar where we gather to recall into our midst those who surround us   or is it they who gather us into their circles of presence when we stop running as if … Continue reading

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grandma’s cooking – September 2

9.2 In a kitchen filled with smells she was a large woman, foursquare jaw surrounding a blocky plain beautiful face that had strength in it beyond years. the paring knife operated ever so deftly in her large rough hands peeling … Continue reading

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