reading, writing, exploring
Posted in poetry on Dec 12th, 2008
I was browsing through some old stuff on my other site, and found some of my poetry.
Rainy Day Sunset
The fiery orange beach ball
slips slowly lower on the grey horizon
leading the orange-pink laced remnant of pale grey
into oblivion
Posted in main on Jul 5th, 2008
Late yesterday I took a stroll behind the cabin in Maine where we were spending the 4th of July with my husband’s family. “The wind in the willows” ran through my mind, until I had to go and give them their proper names…
The wind in the willows – except they’re not
They are birches and yellow [...]
Posted in main on Jun 1st, 2008
I love my deck. When we rebuilt the house after a fire 8 years ago, we changed a window in our bedroom into a door to the backyard and added the deck. It’s a good size – 20×20 or so, with benches on two sides, and a sort of table in the corner where St. [...]
I was a bit taken aback the other day when one of my coworkers was reading the early reports of the devastation from the cyclone that hit Myanmar and remarked – “He’s really cleaning things out over there.” This young man is a Christian. Our conversation often wanders into the realm of church, community and [...]
