Descent

“The sin of respectable people reveals itself in flight from responsibility.”
~Unknown

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To Go East

“Don’t let yesterday eat up too much of today.”
~Will Rogers
[Thanks, Richard.]

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When We Are Thunder

“People are defeated or go mad or die in many, many ways, some in the silence of that valley, where I couldn’t hear nobody pray and many in the public, sounding horror where no cry or lament or song or hope can disentangle itself from the roar. And so we go under, victims of that [...]

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Under The Clouds

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.  The world in arms is not spending money alone.  It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, [...]

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Lost In The Desert

You remember when Jesus was about twelve years old, there was the custom of the feast.  Jesus’s parents took him up to Jerusalem.  That was an annual occasion, the feast of the Passover…And they left Jerusalem going on back to Nazareth…They discovered Jesus wasn’t with them.
Now, the real thing that is to be seen here [...]

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Welcome to the Jungle

“If you grow up in the South Bronx or south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburg or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there’s no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.  The kids have eyes and they can see, and they have ears and [...]

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The Naturalist

“The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.”
~Henry David Thoreau

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Alone. In The Rain.

Solitude
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
  Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
  But has enough trouble of its own.
Sing, and the hills will answer;
  Sigh, it is lost on the air;
The echoes bound to a joyful sound,
  But shrink from voicing care.
Rejoice, and men will seek you;
  Grieve, and [...]

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Clear Horizons

A Ship’s Passage
by Anonymous
 
I stand at the seashore.
 
A ship at my side
  spreads her white sails
  to the morning breeze
  and starts
  for the blue ocean.
 
She is an object of beauty
  and strength
  and I stand
  and watch her
  until at length
  she hangs like a speck
  of white cloud
  just where
  the sea and sky
  come down to mingle
  with each other.
 
Then someone
  at my side says,
 
“There!  She is [...]

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Where The Wind Hits Heavy

The AfterLoss Credo
by Barbara Hills LesStrang
I need to talk about my loss.
I may often need to tell you what happened –
Or to ask you why it happened.
Each time I discuss my loss, I am helping myself
Face the reality of the death of my loved one.
I need to know that you care about me.
I need to [...]

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Caught In A Storm

 
“In a society when is much more inclined to help you hide your pain rather than to grow through it, it is necessary to make a conscious effort to mourn.”
~In Memoriam
     by Henri Nouwen

 
“God does not waste on ounce of our pain or a drop of our tears; suffering doesn’t come our way [...]

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In Winter

“Always be aware that this time is all you have.  Once a minute is gone, there is no way to get it back, no matter how much apologizing or atoning you do.  There will come a time when one of you will lay down for the last time.  Only then will you wish you had [...]

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