Archive for the Category »It Is What It Is «

poem

Woman Feeding Chickens by Roy Scheele Her hand is at the feedbag at her waist, sunk to the wrist in the rustling grain that nuzzles her fingertips when laced around a sifting handful. It’s like rain, like cupping water in your hand, she thinks, the cracks between the fingers like a sieve, except that less escapes […]

Prayer to Share

Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We would like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. And yet, it is the law of all progress that it is […]

Libraries Are Sacred

From the desk of Kirk Kramer     The Christian Science Monitor Restore the noble purpose of libraries by William Wisner July 17, 2009 LAREDO, TEXAS – Libraries were once a sacred secular space of silence and reverence — a place where one automatically lowered one’s voice. As a direct heir to the Enlightenment, the […]

css.php