Entries from August 2008

August 31, 2008

Good Sabbath

To eyes that do not see, it still seems as though the final dice are being cast down here in these valleys, on these battlefields, in these camps and prisons and bomb shelters. Those who are awake sense the working of the other powers and can await the coming of their hour. Space is still [...]

August 29, 2008

Voices

Ah, where to begin?
I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to write. I find myself confused by the pace of change, in myself and the world around me. My conscious brain is a passenger on a high-speed train that whirs carelessly through the crags and fields of what my soul is learning, being, so that [...]

August 24, 2008

Good Sabbath

Glory be to God for dappled things,
For skies of couple-color as a brinded cow,
For rose moles all in stipple upon trout that swim,
Fresh-firecoal chestnut falls; finches’ wings,
Landscape plotted and pieced, fold, fallow and plow,
And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled, (who knows how),
With swift slow; [...]

August 20, 2008

I’ll be here soon…

Hello, hello! (Imagine a very breathless me running by and waving madly in your direction as my voice trails into the distance.)  I am going to write you all a good newsy letter soon, for now, know that I will be posting again soon but am in the midst of seeing my two brothers off [...]

August 3, 2008

Happy Sabbath

The long, long night is past, the morning breaks at last,
And hushed the dreadful wail and fury of the blast,
As o’er the golden hills the day advances fast! The Comforter has come!

-Jars of Clay

Now we see as in a mirror dimly, then, face to face…
It probably doesn’t show like I would wish, but I was [...]